I started by drawing out a mind map and looking at colours, objects and compositions that might suit the book. I then explored further by changing around and mixing themes as well as developing existing ideas.
My 3 final concepts were as follows:
After a class crit, I decided to expand on the ideas put forward in Concept 2. Once I had explored with varying images, typefaces, backgrounds and so on, I re-created the image on photoshop and showed it to the tutors. With a couple of tweaks here and there, this was my final book cover:
Our second brief was to design and make a 'handmade book'.
I came up with the idea to look at the den in which Susie was killed. I wanted to twin this concept with the meaning of the snow globe - the penguin is trapped in a perfect world - as Susie was in heaven.
My final idea was to build a wooden box; to represent the den, into which you could look into via a hole cut in the lid. I then put hinges onto the lid so that you could open it easily and view the contents inside. I lined the inside with multi coloured text; to represent the multi-coloured hat Susie was gagged with, and then put in little trinkets that were representative to her. I also used printed text on material to create the hat. See below for images of the final piece.
Final Space:
