Imran's first two covers

These are my old covers, modified a bit, and added color. I'm re-working the third one to make it make sense with these. Thoughts?

[Slim] Project One - Cover One,Two,Three - Redux

Alright, revamp of the covers based on everything i've learned so far... Tried to retain much of the spirit of the originals where it made sense, and mercilessly removed stuff that was just utter crap... (not that this is that much better)

The detail polishing is absent from these as I was more focused on getting the concept executed.

Feedback is very welcome!! Rip it apart guys, c'mon!! :)

Cover three

Hey guys, I've got some versions of my third cover and I added some color. Mostly playing around with forms. Just need a little feedback, been staring at them too long. Let me know what you all think.

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Kristen suggested including some orange in "The Roaring Silence." Any ideas on how to go about that? I remember trying, but the rose background made orange text unreadable.

-Amy Bickerton

[Lee] Welcome aboard and current covers

First off, fun with cover designs. The size of the "IF" is very telling: The Cover of OJ Simpsons's supposed confession.

Now, in the spirit of fairness, I'll post my John Cage stuff:

Here's 1:


Now 2. Initial nature image was a spiderweb... it's now quite a bit more abstract:


Aaaand 3. I had a pretty piano piece called "In a Landscape." Very lovely and contemplative with a nice series of repeating and eventually overlapping 6-note lines. I was trying to capture that sense of pattern and rhythm but also the piece's sense of rising action.


~Lee

cal's noob question

I don't want to sound too inept with InDesign, but how do you make the bar codes?

julina's covers

These are getting close to done... any feedback on the colors? Do they work? (They are all full bleed, btw.)

[Slim] Project One - Cover Three - Prototype One

Here's my cover three...



I was listening to one of John Cage's tracks that uses a "prepared piano". The notes were rich with reverb, and so I wanted to somehow depict that generation of wave as it started from the notes and propagated outwards. Some notes were hit hard, others were not, some were muted, some were not. The notes all had a tempo to it, as well. I tried to depict that through typography and shapes.

I was inspired by Carrie's nice use of paths, and also Julina's nice use of shapes that contain letters!

Cal's Drafts

I was gone last week and regret missing the crit's most of all. Thanks for your feedback and ideas.

I really like embedding the Monday title in the repeating days of the week, but want to avoid a pattern that is so strong it detracts from the relevant information on the cover. I attempted to overcome this by fading them into the background.





For the Empty Words cover I was building on a pattern from nature (the two slit light experiment), but feel it might be too literal. I am thinking about extending the waves out through the whole cover, but have them break down at a certain point.

Carrie's second assignment

I chose an image of a snail as inspiration for my grid structure. I had a hard time coming up with initial grids, but after thinking about the meaning of "empty words", went for the idea of an spiral loosening up and falling into space.

Feedback would be appreciated!

[Slim] Project one - Cover two - Prototype 1

This is the second cover design.



This is the process I've used:

[Slim] Project one - Cover one - Prototype 2

For prototype 2 I didn't really capture the process because I did everything in Illustrator, and forgot to save revisions as separate files. So all I have is the final rendering.

[Slim] Project one - Cover one - Prototype 1

Photographs of the process I used to arrive at this prototype.

First post

Alright, just trying to get something quick and dirty up so we can all share our work and provide critiques outside of class.

I'll start posting stuff up, but it would be lovely if everyone posted their stuff up, too...