Research
The deliverables for this brief was to create book covers with a contemporary aesthetic and strong type. I was first attracted to this brief as I had studied Clockwork Orange at school so already had fairly good knowledge of the book. I also thought that it had a variety of strong themes that would be easy to visualise. Although a downside to this is that it has been done many times before so was hard to not instantly come up with generic obvious ideas. So I did some research first.
I looked on pinterest to see what styles caught my eye and what I thought worked the best as a contemporary book cover. I think that this is the kind of direction that I would like my work to go in, working quite simply - using symbolic motifs. But I'm worried I'm going to produce something that might turn out looking quite generic and quite obvious. By looking at all the current book covers, very similar objects kept cropping up - clogs, eyes, glass of milk, bowler hat. I want to try to produce something that won't just be another clockwork orange book cover.
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