I started by researching into binding methods different to what I had perviously learnt about last year. I created a perfect bind and an a case bind as these were two binding methods I thought would work well for my publication.
After creating both I decided on the hard back cover, however I had to think further into how I would incorporate a front cover onto the material that is stuck onto the mount board. I initially thought about screen printing a type title onto it but I didn't feel this would be as effective as my second idea. To create a wrap around cover on a thin gloss stock. This is called a dust-jacket. The dust jacket (sometimes book jacket, dust wrapper or dust cover) of a book is the detachable outer cover, usually made of paper and printed with text and illustrations. This outer cover has folded flaps that hold it to the front and back book covers. Often the back panel or flaps are printed with biographical information about the author, a summary of the book from the publisher (known as a blurb), and/or critical praise from celebrities or authorities in the book's subject area. In addition to its promotional role, the dust jacket protects the book covers from damage. However, since it is itself relatively fragile, and since dust jackets have practical, aesthetic, and sometimes financial value, the jacket may in turn be wrapped in another jacket, usually transparent, especially if the book is a library volume.
After measuring it out effectively for an A5 Book I created a simple grid system to ensure I not only cropped it accurately but I typeset my text central to where the folds would be.
This cover design was created to ensure the best possible chance of my target audience wanting to pick it up. A book cover is any protective covering used to bind together the pages of a book. Beyond the familiar distinction between hardcovers and paperbacks there are further alternatives and additions, such as dust jackets, ring-binding, and older forms such as the nineteenth-century "paper-boards" and the traditional types of hand binding. As I believe although a book shouldn't be judged by it's cover, it does serve a highly significant purpose of giving the target audience a desire to want to buy, pick it up and read it. The orange colour scheme was therefore used to make the book vibrant and unique. The sans serif type used (Futura Medium) is easily legible and playful against the orange.
The initial design of the front page seen above was created using a complex grid system in order for the circle to be completely central and allowing room for any other text if needed. The central wavy circle used around the main front page is to create a level of hierarchy in order for the title to be the first thing the reader is drawn to. as it is the most important element. I have constructed it in a way that it is able to stay without falling off without any glue involved. This is created by the outside flaps folding round into the inside of the hardback cover and being folded inside and enclosed with the inside pages of the book.
I created some light orange stripes to bleed out onto the inside flaps to create a connection between the pages even when folded.
I then added an A and a Z above each of the flaps to make it look slightly more complete and to fill up the space. I also added a blurb, which is a short promotional piece accompanying a creative work. It may be written by the author or publisher or quote praise from others. Blurbs were originally printed on the back or rear dust-jacket of a book.
After measuring it all out and creating a mock up of the hard back the cover somehow ended up not fitting around it as the measurements were inaccurate. So therefore I decided to leave the measurements for now until I created my final hard back cover and to measure them then to ensure that the measurements are completely correct.
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