Learning Outcome 3 Competition Brief With RVJ (Continued Further devlopment)
After the final design, I had some good feedback from my tutor and I made further changes to the design. After feedback amongst the group and my tutor. Therefore, I decided to make further changes and develop the design even more. As the book is about politicians who are corrupt I feel my previous illustration was not as effective therefore I came up with the idea of researching and finding a copyright free image of a prime minister “look-alike” portrait. This way I can manipulate it using photoshop and add pieces of my own to it to show a more effective message through the design.
I found an image of a man in a suit who resembled as a politician. However, after getting the image I decided to make changes to the image as you will see in the following slides. As you can see below.
Reference:
Solis, J. (2019). [image] Available at: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/380272762275970533/ [Accessed 15 Jan. 2019].
After I found the image I manipulated and edited the image on photoshop to highlight and accentuate certain areas, and then printed it on A3 paper and placed real money stacks on the eyes and mouth in order to cover this. I Photographed the money on top of the A3 paper and edited it again using Adobe Photoshop and added the final touches. As you can see below.
Once I printed it in A3 I then placed the money stacks on the individual's eyes and mouth to depict that he is corrupted by money and power. As you can see this is how it turned out when I took images with the money stacks on top of his face. Once this was done I then uploaded the picture onto photoshop and edited it further to see what the final results would be.
As you can see when I edited the image in Photoshop I adjusted the contrast, brightness and made the picture more bolds to give a dark/political feel to the image as I wanted to portray the man to look powerful in the sense of colours and tone. I also edited the money stacks to make them bolder and I edited these separate so that I can layer these later during the process. This is because the size will remain the same but the effect will be more prominent. As you can see this is the final outcome. I had to add the drop shadow for the money stacks Also for the final design, I used colours Red because that shows power, evil, and greed, and black because it means professional, high class, wealth and power.
Once the design was completed I looked into various fonts as you can see below and I wanted to go for something which is a newspaper style. As you can see these are the different fonts I looked at.
I chose this font because it looks similar to the newspapers font and I wanted to give that media style font.
This is the final design of the book cover and I chose to use the Didot font because it just stood out more and looked more professional. I also added actual hands and overlapping the authors name banner to give a 3D effect. As you can see the process of the book cover design which was designing in Adobe Indesign.
Design Process:
Final Book Cover Design:
Below is an example of a published book.