Blog 5 February 12, 2014 | Vengeful Vamptress Series

     These are mock ups of a book design that I created for a Collateral Design class. The object of the project was to make up a book series consisting of three volumes. It may sound as simple as that, but it surely wasn't. Conceptualizing took a huge portion of the time for this particular project as well as photo manipulation and treatment. Photoshop was used for the entire project as well as tons of foam core boards and . It took about five weeks to complete because I was required to create a made up book series, (which again took a lot of brainstorming) design the layout as well as appearance of each individual book, and build a three dimensional mock up of each one. Even though this project took an exorbitant amount of time the job got done and the project received positive commentary from South University professors and students. I was actually asked if I was selling the books that you see above. The people inquiring about the books were under the impression that they were real and were willing to pay for them.

 

    This is the first volume. For this composition I put a lot of time into the woman. I used the air brush tool, the blur effect and a couple of adjustments to the highlights/shadows to the image to give off the impression that the woman featured on the cover is a vampire.

     This is the second volume. Although I had to put in many hours on the woman on the cover as I did with the first book, with this design I had to spend even more time placing the two images (the vampire and the ballroom) in a visually appealing manner. That meant I had to consider the placement of the title also.

Lastly, this is the third volume. This final book took up the majority of my designing time because I used three different faces on the cover and each image had to be manipulated so that every individual guy looked like a vampire. After morphing the male images into male vampires I cropped them accordingly and turned the opacity down on all of the eye photos.