Faber&Faber

This is the front cover I have designed for Woody Allen's biography. I am a bit disappointed that I had to use glasses as the image, as I couldn't find anything else to have that distinguishes him. I do like the design though, as it is bold and simple. I think all three books work together well as a group with the same kind of layout, type and they all have one simple image. 

For this book, the spine is a slightly different shade to the rest of the cover which I really like. I will apply this to the others.

In this film, Robert De Nero has a small, square mohawk. I have tried to capture this through a few simple lines. I think that although the taxi has been done before, I like it better than this idea as I have shown the car in a different way to what I have seen. 

To carry on the idea of a taxi, I have changed the background colour to bright yellow as well as added two very simple shapes along a line, symbolising a car. I do like this idea however, it has been a little overused. So I am going to try come up with something a little different. 

This a revised front cover for the book, The Making Of Memento. I have used burgundy in the background as an idea of blood, added a polaroid by using two rectangles, added a 3d effect on then and embossing. I have keeps the jagged type for the title and added a sort of typewriter style to the blurb and authors name. This is because it is a guide to the film. I still need to add details along the spine, but I shall do this after the other two book designs all have a theme running with this book title. 

This is a preliminary cover for the Woody Allen book. The only issues are that the three ideas don't tie in together as a set apart from the fact they all have black backgrounds with type. This one is also not hugely eye catching. I will go back to them all individually and find another way of tying them together and changing them.

I had left out part of the title in the previous post. I think adding this has improved the look of the cover by reducing the white space.

I have used a typeface that is similar to others on posters for this film. The front cover on its own doesn't look how I wanted it, although the type on its own does suggest the subject of the book to be fairly sinister.

I have used the top image as a template to create the first idea for the 'Taxi Driver' front cover. I have used the colour yellow to relate to the taxi part, and overlapped the letter T over the whole cover.

Using the back cover as part of the design I think looks really intriguing. The top image works really well by using type to describe the subject of the book. The two images at the bottom are variations of the same cover, but withe the bar code position changed, and additional colour. I think when you pick up this book, you would immediately turn it over to see the overlap. This I really like, because it changes the dynamic of just opening the pages left to right. 

I really like these series of book covers because of the use of simple typography, making the book look interesting and unique. I could keep the front covers purely typographic, but use colour and positioning to refer to other designs and the storyline. 

These are alternatives to the posters I previously posted for Memento. I quite like the idea of backward text, as well as a simple graphic for the book cover. 

All these images are posters for the film Memento. I have picked these as they all have polaroids as the image. A theme of scratchy writing seems to be in a lot of the posters as well. This suggests to me violence and knife use as part of the film, which I think is quite cleaver.

These images all are quite different to the posters I have posted previously. I like the style of these better because of the simple shapes used. 

These images are posters for the film Taxi Driver. They all show the main character, and two have warn writing for the title. I like the use of the unusual typeface. I think this alludes to a crime film, by the messy scratchy effect. The colour also is very limited to black, white, and yellow.