Cover me...

Now I will take some time to post some cover work I’ve done. This will display some covers from books, albums, and a magazine I did. There will be a brief description to go along with each and they all required some work with Typography.

First is the magazine cover I’ve mentioned in my previous posts. As I said in those posts, I had to create a logo for the demo along with retouching the main house image. I also worked with some stock photography along with copy that I was provided with to use. All in all, I used a mixed combination of Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign for this project.


The following are class projects from college. The first one of this set is a cover for a Citizen Kane book. For this one, I had to determine what would’ve been the best choice of imagery. Once I decided on the subject, I had to arrange the elements I chose to use for this project as well as positioning/determining the lighting for photography. After the image was taken, I played with the orientation/layout of the image, worked on covering the actual text of the newspaper that was used, and generated my own copy to make it appear like the newspaper was part of the story without giving anything away. This project mainly consisted of Photography and Photoshop.


Next is a cover for a user manual I had to create. For the manual, I had to create the copy, take the needed photos, determine the layout, develop Digital Illustrations, take screen-captures, and fix the photos when needed in Photoshop. The cover consists of one of the photos taken, some Illustrator work for the logo/title of the manual, and some layout work done in InDesign. I will go more in depth of this manual in a later post.


The final piece is an album cover I had to create combining several images. There were more images I was provided with but I used those for the inside of the booklet. For this, I had to alter the signage of the store in the background and replace it with the band’s name, add the album title to appear as part of the store front, and delete the inside of the store so that I could place an image of an empty Diner for the inside that I was provided with for the project. This project was completely done in Photoshop. I named the band Solemn Collective and titled the album “No More Joe’s” to go along with the imagery


Until my next post.