Sunday, April 10, 2011

a draft for the book

I chose to keep the background plain white with no images of Venice or anything you normally expect to see on a book cover. Because the word "Venice" is already on the cover, we don't need a picture of gondolas or architecture. I wanted to keep it very simple in order to catch a customers eye on a bookshelf full of covers that are trying to tell a whole story on a page (front cover). The synopsis is on the back of the book, so the front has to work as a lighthouse in the wide ocean of book covers (sounds tacky, but you know what I mean...).

It is a story about transformation, so the blue square starts to fall apart and slowly, bit-by-bit, transform into a circle.

A website where I find help with Photoshop: eHow.com

1 comment:

  1. I also added a short introduction to the writer on the back of the book to persuade the customer that Thomas Mann is acknowledged for his work - which I am hoping - convinces the customer to buy this book.

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