How I did this book cover project:

step1) Pick three titles from the list that have a tie.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nestby Ken Kesey
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski

Ever wonder what to get that bird-loving relative of yours…

step2) Follow restrictions from Tom and heed suggestions: no handmade type, no illustration, no shapes, just type, use pantone colors, three colors following some color relationships, no black, white doesn’t count as a color.

step3)

Update 2-6: Post-critique, the first of Tom’s critiques
step4) Revise: color, tertiaries are always harmonious, therefore in this assignment, not a good way to learn how color plays well with other colors. The font is too similar in size. Not dramatic enough, I guess. The breaking up of the author’s name is a sad attempt at what people in the biz call “design.” Yup. First year work.

step4b)

step5) Re-present: mount trimmed designs on black board with 2inch border and inch spacing, black and 2 pantone color on once side and three pantone color on the other.