Well, I have been working on my cover design this week, and I decided to incorporate some old features. This type design should look familiar. You all ranked it as one of your top 3 designs I did from the original designs. (Remember: it was orange with this type) I was really glad that the university press employees liked my type cover, but I was not sure how I was going to attack the redo when they said they didn't want the state of Missouri. I agree that it was too obvious and limited, so I tried to get a little more imaginative without being to "atypical," since that is not really my style or the press', in my opinion.
I decided to start small with changes. The first was that I placed the title inside of the words from the book that describes the brothers since the brothers are at the center of those descriptors. I also took the map idea from one of my first designs and decided to apply it in a non-traditional way. I created a river like design, but I also put in the lines from the typographic map to add some texture. I am a little worry if the blue lines look like a river. I would appreciate any feedback. Of course, I wanted to leave my mark by using my favorite color one last time for the semester - so this is an ode to tangerine, which, luckily, has kind of an earthy look to it.
While I still don't think it is SO exciting. It's no red, white and blue lips at least. I am pleased with how it has progressed since the first designs. This is not at all how I imagined it at all, but I think it is less safe than what I would have designed it at the the beginning semester. I probably would have used the one that kind of looked like a textbook definition of literary/history book. I think this one will jump out on a shelf more than the brown color that I created during the first round.
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