Jessica Hislop's Digital Media Foundation Blog

im really pleased with how my book cover turned out, and i preferred this project to the propaganda poster, the book cover had a lot of dept...

This is the design i displayed in the crit, i received very positive feedback the cover itself seemed to be successful, it was pointed out...

this is the poster so far and i'm really pleased i think its dramatic enought to attract attention and in keeping enough to fully embo...

since i designed my book cover in Illustrator and the brief specifically asked for photoshop software to be used i decided to create my post...

the design so far.... im really really pleased i think it looks really good and accurate to my hand- drawn design on paper, everything se...

when i was adding the blurb to my back cover i thought that the text looked a little bland without some kind of background because of this...

  I couldnt find any premade fonts that looked how i wanted my title to look so i opted to make my own, drawing it out using the pen t...

 adding the basic swirl shapes of the smoke helped to fill some of the excess space on the chest piece simultaneously intergrating a de...

  since i had the basic outline drawn i began by intergrating a sense of realism and depth by shading my characters- i knew they were ...

I began by using the template downloaded from the Penguin Book Award website i  emphasised the bleeds using the line tool to make sure th...

this is my final sketchbook design - ive tweaked the male figure so the gun is  apart of the knight added in where the blurb would go in a...

i began my pitch by briefly displaying some of my initial research to give a vague idea of how i approached the project.   since i in...

these are modern book covers which i felt really embodied the film noir genre ( it was interesting to investigate modern interpretations...

i really like the red colour of these silhouettes and the angularity of the characters, there is a clear sense of contrast created throu...

i wanted to research some of the art that would have been around when the big sleep was written so i began looking into the deco perio...

http://www.livingneighborhoods.org/pics/fifteen/matissebluenude.jpg After looking at silhouettes on book covers i decided to look at ...

i knew that i wanted to focus my idea on the femme fatale aspect evident within the novel and i really liked the two ...

after researching some other book covers i noticed that silhouettes were used a lot within the covers that i found effectiv...

since my book cover would have to appeal to a contemporary audience i decided to research some modern bestselling mystery novels to see h...

after looking at book covers solely for the big sleep i also began researching other chandler book covers (since the same character of phil...