Brothers Grimm

The Grimm Brothers are two siblings that have written some of the worlds most famous fairly tale stories including Little Red Riding Hood, Tom Thumb and Rumpelstiltskin. The reason why I have chosen these authors is because of how simple you can make the book covers. The 5 stories that I have chosen are Cinderella. Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and of course Little Red Riding Hood. The route I want to take is to make something appealing on the outside that is in the inside. I want to make the book jackets as minimalistic as possible to get peoples attention simply, not but having alot of colour or pictures on the cover. There has been many interpretations of these five stories but I want to be able to explore different mediums and experiments before I settle for a final technique and design idea.

RAPUNZEL

SLEEPING BEAUTY

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD

SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS

CINDERELLA

    

Book Jacket Analysis

Here is some more in depth analysis of different artist work that I really like an hopefully will inspire me for do some of the techniques that have achieved for experiments. 

In Depth Analysis - Igor Udushlivy

Igor Udushlivy has designed a selection Book Jacket & Bookmark as new concept design. This creation is a great idea so use dust jackets and bookmarks together to create a unique image of a paper book. The idea can help to expand book’s space. 
Here are two examples of his work.   

This first image is based on the Nottingham born fictional/real hero Robin Hood. Udushlivy has designed the book with illustrations that relate to the story. He has chose an apple as the main picture on the front of the book to grab the audiences attention. The main reason why he has an apple at the front on the book is to link in with the story. The apple is significant, as well as the arrow in the book mark, an arrow. The significant between the the apple and the arrow is that in the story, Robin shots arrows at fruit so he can give food to the poor. The arrow also links with that he is good at archery. In my opinion the illustrations are really good, and are really minimalistic which draws you in more. Also the text that has been used is bold and stands out and makes to take notice. The text is black and is in a very standard form, meaning it is a sans serif (no flicks on the end of letters). I really like this simplicity of Udushlivy work, because the illustrations on the cover tell you what happens inside the book basically tells you whats in the book.

Here is another design by Igor Udushlivy. This book jacket is straight to the point in what the story is about without having the title of the book on the cover. 'The Sword in the Stone' is a world famous story about a sword stuck in a stone, hence the title. The way that this book jacket has been designed is really simple, having the name of the book at the bottom, meaning that the main attention is of the stone at the top of the page with the bookmark of a sword revealing itself from the inner pages, so it looks like the 'sword is stuck in the stone. The colours that have been used are too over the top, as they are kept really subtle so there is no distraction from the book. Udushlivy design and creativity with this jackets is just to draw you in, not just with the bookmark and the illustration, but also the text too. Again he has used the same font as in the other book jacket, but has made the first line slightly bigger than the second so the word 'sword' get the most emphasis out of the name of the story. 

Another reason why I think this is a good book jacket and bookmark design is because of the amount of colours used. Most books covers use a lot of colour to grab you're attention, with many images as well, personally I feel that they don't need to be overcrowded as much jet to tell a story of what is inside on the outside. Where as these covers are more about the main point in the story, and wanting you to actually look inside the book to read about the story instead of looking at the outside. All in all I really like these designs and the concept of them, by adding the bookmark that is related to the story really gives the book jackets more meaning. I would like to recreate these design ideas by have them relating to my books that I have chosen.

Mood Board

Here are two mood boards that I have created of some of the designs that I like and may like to experiment with during the process of the exam.

There first mood board is off the mask technique of using clipping masks and silhouettes. 

Below is a second mood board that I made because of the pictures that I found of different disney films that have used a technique  to incorporate the most important parts of the film can made them into pictures to describe the story/film. 

Inside, Outside & In Between

The exam title this year is 'Inside, Outside & In Between'. Firstly after hearing the exam name, we had to pick from three briefs: Typography, Illustrations or Book Jackets. 

The brief that I chose was the Book Jackets. This is because it involves drawings and text together. Another reason why I like the brief is because of the techniques and themes.

The books that I have chosen to make jackets for are stories by Brothers Grimm. They wrote fairy tales about Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and many others.