How to Create a Book Cover, Part 3
Our February Newsletter offered a quick book cover exercise to get your creative juices flowing. You were to create a fictional book cover around the following synopsis:
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It is the Super Bowl of all Super Bowls and the Cinderella team, the Oregon Argonauts are scheduled to pair off with the seasoned San Francisco 49ers.An amazing first season, the Argonauts seem unbeatable.They swept through the season without a one injury or game loss, and they now seem destined to go down as the ultimate football team in history.
Frantic to sign players as spokespersons, sponsors are shocked to find their lucrative contracts ignored.
In spite of all the glory, The Argonauts, players, managers and owners, are unusually reclusive. They sidestep interviews and are so invisible – not one newsworthy blip appears on the radar.
Suddenly one of the players is found dead – the cause unknown. Medical examiners are stumped. The team isn’t talking.
Detective Steve Warren is assigned to the case. Only 3 months from retirement, this will be the final feather to a very long and illustrious career.
But how does a detective solve a crime with no leads, no suspects and no cause of death?
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The exercise included creating an enticing title, find images that correlate to the plot and tie them all up with typography, image and color.
If you remember, I was focused on the word “Silent.” I was sure I would use that in one of my covers but as you can see, the word fell silent.
The following are a few ideas I created from the simple exercise. Have a better idea? let me know and I’ll highlight it here.
IMAGES: Source: Shutterstock.com
TYPEFACE: Rockwell , Arial
