Design competition Process

From all the competitions, I decided to draw the millennium handbook cover but it failed many times. The first piece of work I made was with burnt paper and then below the hole I pasted another piece of paper to draw the phoenix. Above I was going to write Millennium High School and below the handbook. To the sides I wrote the years and colored the whole paper. This failed because I made a mistake drawing the phoenix so it messed up the entire piece. The next one I made was very simple but it took a lot of time. I decided to do the same thing but organize it in a different way, and instead of burning the paper, I drew the hole.

I decided to use a font that looked like fire because of the phoenix and also tried to use colors that represented the phoenix. For the second piece of work I did not draw any images and instead made the text stand out more. I also wanted it to look organized, so I tried to align it and made the letters pop out with black so it made a contrast with the piece. 

Book Cover

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From these book covers I can see simplicity but at the same time conveying an important message. I think I am mostly drawn to abstract elements and when I saw this, it immediately caught my attention. Another common characteristic they have, are the colors of the last 3 pictures; It has pastel colors, mostly orange and blue. For most of them, there isn't a lot of words because the picture shows everything. Moreover, the first two pictures are very crazy and have a lot going on. The first one has a lot of letters and the second one a lot of patterns and designs. The difference between the first two are the colors, because one is black and the other one very colorful with mostly pinks. I also see alignment in each of the books and I see everything compacted together even if the cover is very hectic.

Book cover "The Shack"

I think that the design is successful in capturing the book's main idea because it has a sense of mysteriousness but at the same time of comfort. The book was about a man named Mack who held a really dark memory of the hidden shack in the woods because it held the memory of his daughter who was murdered while the whole family was camping. This cover seems very scary, mysterious, and the same time the snow gives the reader the chills. However, when Mack comes back to the cabin after many years, he meets God in his dreams which transforms the cabin into a beautiful house with a green garden and in the cover you can see that light is shining through in the right side and also a plant growing out. Therefore the book cover shows that there are two sides of the story; the beginning is dark and in the end everything gets better