Mock up of my final outcome.

After looking at many techniques and designers, I have finally come to the conclusion of my book cover is to have a double exposure / clipping mask effect. I feel this will benefit my chosen books as the stories are detailed enough to get straight to the point, which is what I want my cover to do. Get straight to the point by explaining what is happening in the book. I like this minimalist approach hope that it really works with the Brothers Grimm books.   

SKETCH

Here is a rough sketch of how I hope and plan my final five books will look like. With this particular sketch of the story Cinderella; I want to capture the main objects or characters that are in the story to try and make a clipping mask or a double exposure that involves two parts of the story that is very prominent. With a few annotations added and the things that I will do to the background, and where I will place the photos and the text. I also worked out the measurements that the jacket needs to be to fit all five books, making the calculation width wise more bigger making sure the design fits perfectly. I feel working within a minimalist way, they will work really well with the books as the stories are fairy tales and are aimed at children of a young age.  

DIGITAL

After the sketch that I drew for one of the books. I took it upon myself to design a digital version of how I vision my work to look like. I started off by opening Adobe Photoshop and opening a document that would be a similar size for the jackets to cover the book. After that I made the background blue and uploaded a bar code and the logo of the book company that published the edition of the Grimm Brothers books, Penguin. What I did next was uploaded my experiment of the Double Exposure technique, inspired by Rown Stocks-Moore, to be my prototype design. Placing the image in the correct position that I thought would work well on the font cover of the jacket. Next, I used a typeface that I made on iFontmaker, to use as the title on the cover, spine and for the blurb on the back on the jacket, which tells you a little bit about the book itself. Finally, I felt that the back of the jacket-cover looked a little bit bare, so I made a silhouette of another object that is a really important part of the story. By making the object of the clock black, it adds to the minimalist theme of the design and technique.