A dust jacket of a book is the outer detachable cover, placed over the front book cover in paper format.
Choosing this option as hardback, I have started to design the front and back cover of it. Looking at professional books alongside my mentor, we found that an introduction to the author themselves is common, therefore including a introduction to myself on the front jacket cover. At first, figuring out and imagining how the 3.D version of the front cover of the actual book, front of the jacket and black linen page option would be placed, this causing confusion and more room for thought about where the introduction to myself would be alongside the introduction of the book and further attributes to include, further ensuring the design stays simplistic.
Intro to myself -
Writing the introduction to myself was challenging, the tone of whats being said needing to be parallel to the tone of the introduction of the book. The English not being too formal, but somewhat poetic to match the consistency of tone within the writing of the book. Design wise, I was unsure as to whether to keep the introduction writing onto the next dusk jacket cover as it was empty. Through discussions with audience members and my mentor, I had concluded not to as it would not make sense though done by many authors- A mentioned point that this is a photo book with a simplistic style, and does not require overflowing amounts of text - an art to the design. The background colour for all design pages also will stay the same. The text begins with capital letters in comparison to the rest of the book, alongside a specific black and white portrait photograph. These actions undertaken due to the professionalism of an introduction and whats said being different from other pieces of writing.
Quote and spine -
Developing from the introduction, I had decided to embed a quote, using punctuation quotation marks for the concept of it being something famously said and being notable, alongside a pleasing aesthetic. The centre alignment gives the quote space to stand out with higher emphasis on whats said, the context of the quote linking to the title of the book. The colour of text is the initial grey experimented with for the front cover. This grey being the colour of text for the title, alongside this text. As the placement of this quote is by itself, the size is slightly bigger with font Proxima nova. Staying consistent with design, this font is the same as the pages within the book.
The spine of the book follows with the title and my name, the same grey and Proxima Nova font. One issue I found with the software was the inability to view the book as a 3.D option. I felt this may have added clarity for design, alongside font sizing as this was a challenge to imagine for places like the spine as the design is on a screen. I had therefore decided to keep the sizing of font for the spine the same as text within the book, this being 14.
Intro to myself -
Writing the introduction to myself was challenging, the tone of whats being said needing to be parallel to the tone of the introduction of the book. The English not being too formal, but somewhat poetic to match the consistency of tone within the writing of the book. Design wise, I was unsure as to whether to keep the introduction writing onto the next dusk jacket cover as it was empty. Through discussions with audience members and my mentor, I had concluded not to as it would not make sense though done by many authors- A mentioned point that this is a photo book with a simplistic style, and does not require overflowing amounts of text - an art to the design. The background colour for all design pages also will stay the same. The text begins with capital letters in comparison to the rest of the book, alongside a specific black and white portrait photograph. These actions undertaken due to the professionalism of an introduction and whats said being different from other pieces of writing.
Developing from the introduction, I had decided to embed a quote, using punctuation quotation marks for the concept of it being something famously said and being notable, alongside a pleasing aesthetic. The centre alignment gives the quote space to stand out with higher emphasis on whats said, the context of the quote linking to the title of the book. The colour of text is the initial grey experimented with for the front cover. This grey being the colour of text for the title, alongside this text. As the placement of this quote is by itself, the size is slightly bigger with font Proxima nova. Staying consistent with design, this font is the same as the pages within the book.
The spine of the book follows with the title and my name, the same grey and Proxima Nova font. One issue I found with the software was the inability to view the book as a 3.D option. I felt this may have added clarity for design, alongside font sizing as this was a challenge to imagine for places like the spine as the design is on a screen. I had therefore decided to keep the sizing of font for the spine the same as text within the book, this being 14.
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