Journal 1

This is just an awesome cover i thought and here is a link where the designer talks a little bit about her concept behind it.   


More on Chip Kidd is a very famous book design cover.   When first looking at his covers like Blood on the Moon i found them intensely intriguing after reading more into it though i have to agree that all he has done is taken Thomas Allen 3D work and converted it back to a flat cover.  I guess he should get some credit considering he still is the one that thought of it but most of the credit then should be for the type and arrangement of the elements. However I think some of his other covers are way more intriguing.  

I posted more on Chip Kidd and John Gall with the Type Research entry. I have my good covers posted under my last entry here i am finishing up talking about index within 3 of them. 

The first cover is Against Happiness a book by Eric G Wilson the designer is Jennifer Carrow.  The best thing about it is the simplicity of it(no eyes) and the shape of the type is an index for a frown and sadness against the bright yellow of the background makes it an even more striking design in my mind.

These two covers are for the same book but done differently.  They both have an index of sexuality.  Howevr the one on the left is a bit more subtle and effective.  Although when i first saw the one on the right i was very surprised and shocked it made me look closer into it and i am more likely to open that cover.  

This cover designed by Charolette Strick i found interesting although after reading what other have to say about it i am a minority, but i felt it can be related to the topic of index.  This may be a stretch but i feel the exploding rose is an index for the feminine beauty the title references but in a harsh way.  Rose and women are often related but having the rose look as if it were exploding right in front of my eyes on the cover is a nice twist.  So the rose in index for the harsher sides of feminine qualities.