Evaluation

For this 3 day project I have been asked to make a book jacket. The research for 2 days and then I had 5 hours to make the final. I think that this was quite challenging for time keeping and the research had to be very straight to the point and I couldn't go off subject as there was only 2 days for the research. As we were not given the title or subject of the book and only the genre of non-fiction I think the research was okay and that I have concentrated on the right parts of the book covers. I think I have enough reseach within my blog. What I needed to find out when doing this research is the layouts and the type used in the book covers. I used both fiction and non-ficton book covers to look at as I thought that I would benifit from looking at these, also penguin books, as this was what I based my book cover on. This was very useful because when looking at the back cover the barcode and what surrounded the barcode was always different, so looking at a few different penguin back covers I decided on a way of layout I liked and chose to do that. The strengths within my piece is that it is simple, clean cut and the title is easy to see and read when you first see the cover. The spine also does the same thing with easy visual. The way in which I think that this piece could be mis-read or mis-understood is that the image I have done for the front cover isn't instantly known to what it is. If you read the blurb this becomes a lot more clear, although a lot of people wouldn't go to that extent to do this, the story over the top of the image explains this also. What I have enjoyed about this project was looking at all different types of book covers. There was a lot I didn't know about the smaller parts of a book cover, things like the barcode, logo, price and the smaller print. It was good to learn about these parts of design.