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Alice In Wonderland - Book Cover Design - Context photos

Below you can see my papercut covers and digital covers on actual Alice in Wonderland books, with an accompanying bookmark.

Alice In Wonderland - Book Cover Design - Magazine Feature!!

My papercut dust jackets have been featured in DigitalArts Magazine! More information on my PPD blog here.

Alice In Wonderland - Book Cover Design - Final printed covers / Dust jackets

The cover below shows the final printed cover underneath one of the papercut dust jackets. I think the following printed design adds more of a luxurious feel as the subtlety of the satin printed stock against the matt papercut dust jackets creates an illusion of a spot varnish type finish. I feel this adds more of a 'collector' appeal as it looks more of a special limited edition.

Alice In Wonderland - Book Cover Design Final covers - Printed

Below is my final chosen design for my printed covers. I felt keeping them all the same underneath the dust jackets was appropriate as more than one design would deter the attention away from the papercut jackets, which was the focus. These simple covers have been designed to be able to be used as stand alone covers, as well as understated designs underneath the dust jackets. This also creates a more collectors item of the dust jackets and the covers are just a general design to be used, where as the dust jackets are to be collected.

Alice In Wonderland - Book Cover Design - printed cover experiments

The experiments below have a white piece of paper between the dust jackets and the printed jackets - I tried this to block out the text on the back cover and to have a white backdrop for behind the papercut dust jacket toppers. I feel this makes the covers feel too busy though and as the printed covers icon alignment is out of place too, I have also tried to remove the white icon from the front of the cover and the white paper between the covers to replace it with a matt finish, all black cover (with the needed text still, obviously) which you can also see below.





I like the subtle effect the matt finish has but I think they need more of an impact, so I will try a satin finish for a faux spot finish look.

Alice In Wonderland - Book Cover Design - draft printed covers & changes

This is my first final printed and designed cover. After printing it I realised there were some adjustments to be made such as adding international pricing, the potential for adding a drop, moving the puffin logo on the back cover, as it is too close to the logo on the spine and adding more black at the top of the cover to act as a backdrop between the papercut toppers on the dust jackets.


The images below are print outs after the adjustments mentioned above.




The images below show where the final covers have been measured slightly out and this causes the covers to buckle up and not close fully. It also shows the mis-alignment of the icons with the papercut covers, which I will fix.

Alice In Wonderland - Book Cover Design - final bookmarks

These are my final bookmark designs that I feel communicate the visual imagery of the story well, have a simple more subtle impact and are still practical to use in books. I used just one of the iconic images from the dust jacket tops for each bookmark, this is the digital design of them but I will papercut these as this will help create a cohesive design for my collectors audience.

Alice In Wonderland - Book Cover Design - bookmark idea

These ideas for papercut bookmarks came about from the tops of the dust jacket silhouette covers. I like them and think they have a great impact and communicate what I want, but they would not be practical to use in a book as the small papercut sections would get bent, folded and crushed within the books. I would like to keep the visual language of the story but make them simpler and more practical.

Alice In Wonderland - Book Cover Design Final covers - Dust Jackets

This idea would give my covers the collectable feel that I want them and the dust jackets to have, with wear and tear not really being a problem as my audience would handle the books with care. Below are photographs of my final dust jackets, without the printed covers behind them so you can see where they have been cut. These headers to the dust jackets are the smallest things I have cut by hand...the teapot toppers are roughly 1cm x 1cm! I will update soon with the final printed cover designs.

Alice In Wonderland - Book Cover Design - Dust Jacket Silhouettes

These designs are what I plan to create as papercuts to be dust covers. I wanted to cut them by hand instead of using digital illustrations as you would get that handmade feel which I think is important for my style and work. So the images below will be printed to create a template for me to cut from and then these cut designs will be the dust covers to go over the printed covers of the books.

Alice In Wonderland - Book Cover Design - Initial Cover Ideas

These are some of my initial ideas for cover designs, based on the imagery I thought related well to sections of the story of Alice in Wonderland. I have also Experimented with some spot colours, the layout and compositional elements within the designs. I would use a similar layout for each book cover to keep the collectable, group feel this gives them.