Initial Penguin Book Covers

Overall I pleased with my responses (see figures 1-3) to studio brief 2 as I feel my experimentations using the Marber grid have work successfully to bring a contemporary style to my covers whilst still reflecting the traditional Marber grid. The addition of purple is used to create a continuous theme across the book covers in a similar way to Marber's use of the green hue across all mystery covers in the 1960s. I feel the purple works successfully as it represents the mystery and suspense within each of the books I've chosen whilst showing the belong to a specific genre making them easily identifiable. I've chosen to feature a simple illustration of a famous building from the city in which the book is set as this allows me to reference the book without creating obvious imagery that is directly linked to the story line. The inside cover of my books sleeves feature a map of Poland's capital city Warsaw which has been adapted into a timeline of Romek Marbers life. I feel this use of the timeline works well however it can be difficult to identify some of the points due to overlapping lines of the map. Overall I feel my designs (see figure 4) work successfully to reflect the individual books I've chosen whilst still reflecting the key structure of the Marber grid.

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