Bookcover Project

Second project of the term! For this one we were asked to chose from a list of made up books, make up a vague storyline and produce a cover. I chose "Three Blind Men" "a cautionary tale of woe for the modern gentleman". My story basically follows three individual storylines of people who focus on the wrong things in life and come to rather nasty ends.

I'm in love with Dutch Vanitas paintings at the minute, which show the "meaninglessness of earthly lifeand the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits". These include lots of symbolic imagery like skulls, hourglasses, bursting bubbles (demonstrating the fragility of life), lemons (the bitter-sweet nature of life), smoke and rotten fruit and I decided to twist these for my own photograph.

Vanitas by Peter Claesz

Here's my final design, text wasn't a very important part of the assignment, i've just added some basic lettering to make my book look more professional.