University Project
Brief:
Create a book cover design for a book of your choice.
Mediums:
Soft Pastels, Oil Pastels, Adobe Photoshop
Blurb:
What if you aren’t the Chosen One? The one who’s supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you’re like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again. Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world, and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life. Even if your best friend is worshipped by mountain lions...
I redesigned the cover for one of my favourite books - “The Rest of Us Just Live Here” by Patrick Ness. I wanted to challenge myself by focusing on typography and using pastels as the main medium - two things I don’t have a lot of experience with. My concept was to show the dark forest, full of danger, and the bright lights that lead you out, but not always to safety.
