Graphics Evaluation

Final Piece

This is my final piece for unit 2, 'The Breakfast Club' book cover.

Graphics Print Analysis

Final Piece Work In Progress

Here are my work in progress of my book cover:
First I create a new document for the book cover, which it consist of front page, back page, flaps and the spine. And I adjusted the width to 297mm and the height to 210mm. Then I also made a book cover template and a grid as I go along with my design, which it helps me to put things on the correct places and to make sure it won't get way too messy or out of order.

After that, I used watercolour to paint the page and scan it in to use it as the book cover background. I created some white boxes with black frame in it, by using rectangle tool, so that I can add in information like the book title, and by using the colour white and black, it helps to emphasis the classiness of the boo cover design, since The Breakfast Club is a classic story.

Once the boxes were created,  I then inserted the book title and descriptions into the correct boxes also a barcode is needed for a book cover. In order to make the texts seem less boring, for the description part, I set the size of the capital letter T into 46, and the rest into 11, because by doing this it makes the description look less dull, also the above paragraph uses a different typeface so the overall look of the description looks more appealing.

For the next step, I drew images of cigarette, book, boxing glove, lipstick and scribble, which these represents each characters from the book. Once I'm done with all the drawings I then coloured it with watercolours, and scan it when its all dry.

Then all the images were opened in photoshop and added into the book cover, I copy and paste the images and distributed all over the front cover and back, but not on the spine. 

Once I'm done with the front cover, back and the spine, I then work on the flaps. For the one on the right hand side, I added information such as John Hughes's (the writer of The Breakfast Club) photo, his biography and work, also The Breakfast Club's achievements. As for the flap on the left hand side,  I added a famous quote from The Breakfast Club instead of adding any further information about John Hughes. Also, I put the Penguin Book logo at the bottom of the spine, and place another one right next to the barcode at the back. 

Finally, I cropped out the extra pink watercolour background bits that are outside the book cover template, and this is the overall look of my book cover final piece. 

Case Study

Final Draft