Book Cover Design Project

Book Design

This personal project was a challenge enacted to rethink the creative limitations of inktober. I wanted a more practical illustration application I could use in a portfolio and found myself drawn to book covers. I chose a few creative limits, picked a few of my favorite titles off of my own bookshelf, and got to work! The result was the following six designs.

Initial Project Timeline

3 Weeks

Software

  • Illustrator
  • Photoship
  • InDesign

Basic Guidelines

All covers were designed to US paperback specifications, and all covers required use of an original pattern design.


covers


Process samples

Little Mermaid cover in detail
The Little Mermaid design process
Coraline cover in detail
Coraline design process
Dracula covers in detail
Dracula design process