Studio Brief 01 - Interim Crit - Initial Ideas

After analysing the book, the main themes that I found, were the poignant objects that were discussed throughout the book, however I feel this idea alone would be very cliche and a lot of other designs would incorporate this. Another idea that has been explored is contrasting the cover with present day and modern day, such as computers, I pads and phones, even though the book is based in the 1980s. 

This cover works well, however it doesn't seem as innovative and it is kind of a cliche design, and the lined paper and hand drawn doodle approach has definitely been overdone and overused, in the likes of the diary of a wimpy kid books and many other teenage books. The doodles would maybe work better on the back cover with a more innovative design which can be seen on the front. 

In the crit, this design was preferred, as it is a very different, innovative idea, and brings the book back around to modern day. It contrasts the very first ever design of the book, which is very much of 80s design. In the crit, ideas to develop this cover was to create a very minimal cover using only the google search bar, and bringing it round to the back cover, therefore it covers a double page spread, tying in the whole book jacket together. The crude words were said to work well, using sex, girls, spots, puberty, to highlight the topics that are discussed within the book. The illustrative style works well, and the colours used should be a limited colour palette. 

This idea, is a less cliche idea, and discusses and shows the ideas that can be found within the book, also the titles of the book also sum up the themes that Adrian goes through, throughout the story. the design doesn't work as well on it's own however and the amount of text makes it confusing to read. maybe incorporate this illustration alongside other drawings. 

The famous icon of the sock, this idea was liked in the crit, however an idea that was discussed to push this idea further, was to sew the title of the book into a sock, to produce a more tactile and 3D approach and then photograph it and place it within a certain context, which implies Adrian's bedroom. 

This is a development on the google search idea, bringing the book to the 21st century and the present day. This illustration would be developed to spread across the hole double spread, which is a modern take away from the original cover.