Book Cover

I decided to design a mock-up book cover for my interactive 60's styled book. First comes the research, so I looked at book covers in that era.

Most book covers use icons to represent what the book content was, and the colours were bright and retro. So, my first designs were very bright, and had the silhouettes of two faces and one woman. I really liked the icon idea, but I thought I could improve it.

With some more looking, I found Helvetica was used widely back then. So I used that font and added more colours.

I also changed the opacity of the icons so you could see slight colour changes in the pictures, too. This gives it a nice flow and the colour seems naturally faded.

I tried a couple of colour themes (blue and pink) to see if other colours worked better. Personally, I like the pink and purple one best, because it seems more musical and disco-like with the way the orange pops out.

I did some more experimenting with my covers, but I carried on with the pink colour theme. I added opaque circles, more shapes and one I even changed the icon. To me, now, the most successful ones are the bottom middle and the bottom right - mostly the bottom right. This is because of the dynamic shapes included and how it's 60's inspired but still different from just any other 60's book cover.