Finalising Cover Design

Cover Design Development

After creating a body of potential cover design, I began playing in publisher with some of my best edited visuals. I had difficulty chosing wich colours to go with but I started with the yellow and green as they most popular and preferred on my instagram.

Instagram research

I used instagram a lot to help decide on which designs to expand on this was a very helpful source for public opinion and input.

I decided to combine the most favoured works and began exploring this composition, placing the mountains and sea landscape behind, I feel this adds depth and furthers a place of nature. I played around with bars of shade to represent steps althogh I felt this closed of the design. I also wasnt fond of the colours as they dont speak pop culture to me, I felt they look quite ghostly and eerie though I do like the purple undertones.

I then thought about using a similar design but in yellow like my very first mock ups. The yellow was the most prefered on instagram so I felt this worked out well, mirroring the designs with the landscape behind

Final Design Development

I started by recreating the design using the yellow version, I feel didn’t edit the background as I think the shade of purple is quite unisex and appealing.

I then tried out layering more circles in gradient tones to play with the design though I felt it looked forced and unorganised.

I then tried out inverting the design altering the colour of the boarder to black and white I felt this could explore my concept as it highlights creativity and colour in a black and white environment.

After doing this exploration I was able to see that this was my desired design, I enhanced the vibrancy to make the colours pop further and thought about adding final touches with the title.

After using the font Beatnik for all my activity pages, I felt it would be appropriate for the cover, I decided to position it central as to divide yet expand on the figures which works well. I lined up the letters with the circles which worked out very well, I then thought about alternative colours for the font. I thought light blue would work better than white as it is softer in contrast.

I spent some time developing this design, I really liked the yellow and purple as they are complementary colours, I much prefer this version of the design as it looks more solid and relative to my themes of nature, minimalism and pop culture.

Final Cover Design