critique - May 1

This week, I continued working on the 5/3 cover for VOX. I found out that the focus of the article was in fact not the domestic violence but the hype that surrounded the publishing of the book, including the author's appearance on Oprah. So I started rethinking my concept for the cover. One of the concepts I thought of was a sort of spoof of the whole situation with "ATTENTION" in large letters and the beginning of a sort of press release stating the fact that this book was being released and was predicted to be a success. In the end that didn't quite work as it didn't really show what the story was about but it was fun to play around.

My second concept had more to do with the accolades that the author was receiving because she wrote this book. I wanted a textured background with an illutration of the author and flowers coming from different directions kind of being thrown at her. In my first draft, the flowers on the cover didn't quite work and the typography needed some work. The second version of the idea, I liked but it was brought to my attention that the image looked like a man so I decided it would be just easier to treat the photograph and use it. I didn't like the way the final product looked with the image in color so I desaturated the photograph and upped the cyan. The final product I really like because I think it speaks to the grittiness of the topic she's writing about. I like the way the texture of the background turned out. I really liked the "green" cover but I was told it looked to similar to one that ran last year so I changed the background. I think the new color still preserves the tone I was going for.




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