Sunday, 24 November 2013

Book Cover Content: Newspaper

I've been experimenting with the idea of featuring a newspaper in my design. Whilst the newspaper and "the news" are also relevant to the book, I want to utilise how a newspaper has different "articles" to subtly convey the themes of the book on the front cover. So, I've started to look at existing newspapers - from now and the 1960's, from america, and design that feature newspapers and have developed the concept of it. Below is a small mood board of this.
The above picture of the drawing over the newspaper has sparked an idea for my design. I want to convey a slight sense of gang culture/rebellion etc, and I think that the drawing above, how someone has disregarded the writing underneath and drawn what they want over it, hints towards this. I could perhaps write the title/author of the book this way if I'm going to base my design around a newspaper.
Also, the idea of a newspaper being ripped or destroyed seems to convey a similar thing - disregard, rebellion, violence.

Image sources:

No comments:

Post a Comment