BOOKCOVER REDESIGN: The FINAL

Quicker than I'd have liked, the final presentation came! We were to mount one of the covers onto our book and present all the covers in a pdf presentation.

For the photographic piece, I decided to return to a concept I had early on- photographs of noses. Because noses were the first thing that came to mind when thinking of plastic surgery, I felt this addressed the concept pretty well.

Originally, I took all the nose photos myself, but I had trouble finding consistent light and angle. Thus, I ended up going through a ton of magazines and scanning model's noses, making them symmetrical, and placing them on the cover. While I am relatively satisfied with the result, this concept was definitely my least favorite of the three.

My typographic concept was based on quotes from the book describing the Uglies as weeds and the Pretties as flowers. Thus, I decided to create dimensional text using photographs of dirt, 3d models of roses, thorns, and weeds combined with a photograph of a nasty root. This took a lot more work than I expected, but I was definitely please with the result

My final piece, and the one I chose to mount, was the illustrated piece. I kept with some of the original development illustration, but I decided to add a more sinister and techie feel to it. I was happy with the style and color changes and felt that this piece, amongst all three pieces, most aptly represented the content of the book.

Project DONE.

For more of this project, see:

BOOKCOVER REDESIGN: The Project

BOOKCOVER REDESIGN: The Concept

BOOKCOVER REDESIGN: The Development

BOOKCOVER REDESIGN: The Final