The Bell Jar Recovering Assignment
My final book cover of The Bell Jar was an attempt to take a little bit of everything from the past fifty years of cover editions and compile it all into a cover that displays, what I like to believe, things Plath would have approved of. Though there were two large concepts that were missing […]
New and improved Neuromancer cover
Neuromancer has had problematic covers throughout its history. From the problematic covers of the 80’s that have not aged well, to the most recent covers which seam rather bland and didn’t really seem to convey anything about the theme of the book. This is a shame considering the book is considered to be one of […]
Children of the Alley Re-Covering Design
The novel I chose has many complexities embedded in the plot, and in order to analyze it, the reader has to have an adequate amount of historical backgrounds for religions. However, since I assume most of the class haven’t read the novel, I will try to summarize the plot. In brief, the novel talks about […]
Lolita, redesigned
In my analysis of Lolita covers over the last 60 years, I argued that those following Kubrick’s film were notably more sexually explicit than those released in the 90s and later. I attribute this to a shift in how we have come to think about sexuality, youth, rape. Though this text is considered a respected piece […]
Re-Covering Design Assignment: Stephen King’s “The Gunslinger”
In my new version of Stephen King’s The Gunslinger book cover I have a minimalist computer influenced design. Through the Creative Commons search I found an image that was perfect for my book cover. The original image contained two men facing each other with a mostly empty background other than the horizon and just the sun […]
The Jungle
While redesigning Upton Sinclair’s, The Jungle, I decided to keep it simple and minimal. The cover includes the background being a murky green, an enlarged pig, and a factory in front. Choosing a cover image for the book was difficult and frustrating. I wanted to add so much on the cover but I didn’t want […]
Redesigning Goyen’s _The House of Breath_
William Goyen’s The House of Breath, first published in 1950, is a novel that defies easy description. To begin, it lacks a clear sense of both plot and characterization, presenting instead a series of vignettes (Goyen calls them “arias”) that are heavily informed by the specifics of setting. Thus, while Goyen’s characters appear to be […]
‘Flowers in the Attic’ Re-Covering Design
For my re-covering of “Flowers in the Attic” by V.C Andrews, I wanted to bring the cover back to its former and hunting glory. As the years passed by, the novel cover looked less and less like the plot with bright colors, romantic couples looking straight out of a fairy tale. I decided to go […]
The Lord of the Rings Cover Re-Design
When I was looking at all the different covers for the Lord of the Rings, I didn’t know which ones to choose. There were so many of them. The obvious choice was to use the very first cover that Tolkien himself helped design. For being published in the 1930’s, the cover is a basic design. […]
The Hobbit Cover Re-Design
For my re-design of the book cover for “The Hobbit”, I set out to modernize the original book cover that Tolkien designed. I knew that I wouldn’t be able to create anything better than his design, but I wanted to see what it would look like if it was done with modern technology. I started with a grey background […]
