Today I finally posted off my entries to the Penguin Adult Prize and Puffin Children’s Prize and what a relief it was. I spent the majority of yesterday running around Garthdee getting things photocopied, printed and bound but it seems to have been worth it considering I’m still rather pleased with my final covers, as well as my submission boards.
I have even submitted a wee snippet from my Perfume cover to represent my work in the Gray’s School Of Art Degree Show Booklet.
I couldn’t find the right image from my Irvine Welsh project at the time so thought I’d go for a cropped photograph of my award entry, and I’m rather pleased with the results. It’s not giving too much away but, then again, that might not be a great thing.
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It might be a bit of a stretch calling this a “round”. It’s one cover.
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Tonight I bring you the second of three developments with the potential to become my final book jackets. These designs are much more simple and stripped back than the other two but I am quite fond of them.
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After months of studying and working out the little technicalities of my book covers, I’ve finally started doing the fun stuff… designing book covers.
I have three concepts for the project and this is the first. The idea is strong typography laid out over a photograph which in some way relates to the content of the book.
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All week I’ve been doing the boring bits of book design (with I’ve quite enjoyed). I’ve been working out the format, the size, the dimensions, the cover copy and so forth for my new collection of Irvine Welsh book jackets and it finally feels as though these covers are becoming a reality. There are, unfortunately no decent sketches or developed visuals to speak of yet though, I just wanted to see if anyone had any thoughts on my chosen book size.
I’m roughly going for Demy Octavo which has the proportions of 8(3/4)” by 5(5/8)”. The dimensions make for a rather slim hardback book, here’s an example of the size.
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