Book Cover Designs

I like this cover because of how much this cover fits the title. The smoke from the match goes with the word "pale," and the match represents the fire. Also the smoke gives the book a mysterious feeling that draws out my interest and desire to read the book.

This cover is definitely spooky. The two mirrors look like a pair of eyes when they are put side by side like this. Also it makes me thought of ghost stories that are related to mirrors. Scary. (I am already having goosebumps.)

This cover is really colorful. The colorful words stand out against the white outline of a female in pain on a black background. The bright colors match the idea of "splashes of colour." The only thing I don't like about the design is the bar of color on the top of the cover. Those color looks out of place. 

At first glance, I thought this was a box full of little earrings. Then I realize that it is a book cover. When I look closely at the little objects, they do seem to give off a feeling that they are transparent, but they are really not. The cover brings out my curiosity to find out how the little objects relate to the story. 

A fork that looks like a hand or a claw. Creepy, but at the same time interesting. This makes me wonder what kind of book this is. After reading the title, I can see that the fork relates to the table and bent part of the fork relate to the wolf. However, I am uncertain about the color of the fork. The red either represents blood or something else.

Overall:

The common characteristic of my five chosen book cover is that all the cover designs relate back to the title of each book in some ways. Also most of the designs seem to be a photograph or realistic enough to think of as a photograph.

Book Cover: The Kite Runner

The cover with the two boys and a kite in the sky fits the story because the book is mostly about the lives of two boys in Afghanistan. The theme of the book is father and son, but it is through the semi-tragic lives of the two boys. Even though this cover shows the main characters of the book, the cover with a single boy flying a kite fits the title of the book. This is hard to choose, but overall I like the cover with the one boy because the color is not as bright as the cover with the two boys. The cover with the two boys hurts my eyes when I look at it for too long. 

Competition Design

At first, I was thinking of drawing a section of the school that used the central stairs as the focus, but the design got so complicated. Then I thought of the school as a whole and how there were always students  entering (as freshmen) and leaving (as graduates). The school was never complete because of the entering and leaving, and this reminded me of an incomplete puzzle. So I had the white missing puzzle pieces to show the incompleteness that I associated with the school. The words that were on the design was a requirement (and so I had no choice but to include them). The phoenix came from the new school logo on the school site. I included the people of different kind and doing different actions to show the different people in MHS. The different people were also the ultimate image that you would see after the puzzle is complete, which is never going to happen. There were some alignment and repetition in the design. I created the design using gimp.