

Book Cover Design
Select three books that are similar in author, genre, or theme. Design a book cover for each one. Individual book covers should use a monochromatic scheme. However, the set should follow analogous, split-complementary, or triadic color scheme. For example, you can have one book with a monochromatic color scheme using only values and tones of an orange hue, and the other two book cover designs use monochromatic schemes with red-orange and yellow orange. Each book has a monochromatic scheme, combining the set creates a analogous scheme.
The imagery must include an illustration, posterization, or shape arrangement. This imagery should convey a sense of conceptual unity within the book design and across the set. For example, each book could illustrate a singular object that makes reference to a physical object in the story, or each cover could illustrate a cityscape that is the location in the story, but each cover uses a different time of day (midday, sunset, and twilight). This conceptual symbolism is up to you. Try to be creative.
Use the elements of design to create one of the following interactions: contrast, repetition, movement, or proportion. You want each book cover to achieve unity between attributes and interactions, and you want some of those similarities to work across all cover designs to achieve a similar unity across the set of designs. Make sure all of your type is readable and legible. We also want to focus on some of the tools you have learned. We want you to export your final designs as PDF to submit to your instructor.
Book Cover Set Design
Technical Requirements
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Submit 3 book covers
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Book cover set should have a similar author, genre, or theme
Design Requirements
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Each individual book cover should use a monochromatic color scheme
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The set should follow analogous, split-complementary, or triadic color scheme.
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Include an illustration, posterization, or shape arrangement that conveys conceptual unity across the set.
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Create one of the following interactions: contrast, repetition, movement, or proportion
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Achieve unity between the attributes and interactions utilized in each cover
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Achieve unity between the attributes and interactions utilized across the set
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Make sure all type is legible and readable
Skill Requirements
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Export the book cover as a PDF
Bonus Requirements
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Achieve a conceptual unity between the attributes and interactions utilized across the set
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No more and no less than two typefaces (artist/title)
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Use a type of unity, such as similarity, closure, continuity, common fate, or parallelism
