Jacket Idea Research

So I finally had a brainwave after weeks of designer's block about what I want to do for my 'Musicophilia' dust jacket cover. Considering psychology (especially psychoanalysis) is actually an interest of mine, I'm leaning more toward using recognized psychological imagery for my dust jacket than basing it on music. My idea is to use the infamous Rorschach test,(the ink blots test in actual English) as the main image on my front and back cover. I will make an ink blot and photograph it then add playful type around it's edges in order to fulfil what was asked of me in the brief. More Rorschach research to come.

Type as a graphic element

I thought I'd just put up some more of my research into type as a graphic element as it's part of the criteria for our dust jacket design brief. These are various examples (a lot of which are playful and illustrative) of typography being used as a graphic tool.

More Pop Cultural Referencing Crap

These are just some recent illustrations I've done, thought I might aswell throw them up to show you guys. Neither were originally intended to be used as college work but I ended up using my personal take on 'Gramsci', the communist alsatian from the show 'Spaced' as a poster for a project in my Ideas Generation class.

Chimera in a bag version 2.0

 

Did the first part of the chimera project out again as I wasn't too impressed with my other 'final' piece. It's another landscape, except this time more surrealistic. I'm calling it a 'dreamscape'. Done in both Photoshop and Illustrator. I chose to do another landscape piece due to the extremely limiting items I had on my person at the start of this project. In my 'dreamscape' I have used a silf scarf to form the mountains, a lip gloss applicator for the birds and a tub of Vaseline for the moon. The clouds in the background of the sky I painted on myself aswell as the wings on my 'birds'.

Oliver Sacks Book Covers

 

 

These are all past dust jacket designs for the book we have to design for, 'Musicophilia' by Oliver Sacks. To be honest I'm not a major fan of any of them bar the playful nod to surrealism in the illustration of a hat and the french text 'Ceci est ma femme' for the book 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat'.

Type as a graphic element

In our brief it states that we could use type as a graphic element, something I'm still considering myself. Here are a few examples.

Book Cover Research

I've been mainly looking at flat graphics for my 'Musicophilia' book cover, I'm thinking of going for an Asian influenced illustrative style at the moment much like some of these images here. I love the matte bold colours used and strong lines.