Alice in Wonderland - Book Cover Design

These are my final book cover designs that will be digitally printed and placed underneath my papercut dust jackets. I have included all the relevant information and text and have used relevant colours, illustrations and style to match my dust jackets, but also designed them so they look good by themselves without the dust jackets, while still matching my bookmarks.

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.

Alice In Wonderland - Book Cover Design - draft ideas

The following designs are draft ideas for book covers/dust jackets that could work together. I want to keep an iconic image from the book as I think this will help the onlooker to recognise the story, but in a subtle way.







Below is an example of my first layout idea on the mac, along with a layout for the body copy on the back of the book. I think the centralised text doesn't work and the font size is too big, plus the logo is way too close to the barcode.