Final in-depth analysis

Here is a a book cover design by designer John Gall. This particular design is for a book called 'Sweet Bird of Youth' by Tennessee Williams. The concept of the story is about a Chance Wayne who returns to his home town as the accompaniment of a faded movie star. I believe that the techniques that has been used is clipping masks. Gall has used incorporated photography, to make the clipping mask seem more real.   

I have selected this artists because of how effective the clipping mask technique. I felt that the clipping masks have worked really well with the story of the book, is a really unique concept that really captured my eye when I first saw it. I find this work really inspiring because of how Gall has introduce the shape of a bird into the design. A symbol of a bird represents youth and this fits perfectly with the title. I also like to think you can get two different views when looking at this. For example looking from a distance you can't really see the photograph of the girl that has been embedded in the birds wings, you just see a pattern and a show of the bird. However as you begin to look closer to the design you can see that the creatures pattern on the wings is actually a photograph of a young girl that look sweet and innocent, like as the name of the book suggests.  

This particular design by Gall links very well to one of my initial ideas. I feel that working with a clipping mask technique and pictures, it will create a really simple but an effective look that I think will suit the style I'm thinking of creating for my five Brothers Grimm books. What ideas have you got in response to this work? The ideas that I have got from this particular artist, John Gall, is the how something so simple of a 'silhouette' of a bird and the amount of shape and detail that has gone into making the outline of the bird. Also by having the addition of the photograph introduced into the bird has worked perfectly. And it has really inspired me to be more ambitious with the type of silhouettes that I may use for each of the books. Out of the designers that I have seen John Gall has really inspired me to create a really minimalistic idea that will compensate well with my five books, hopefully I will be able to make and design something as good as Gall's work.