Alice in Wonderland Mood Boards

After creating my mind map I made four mood boards- objects, settings, characters and colour scheme. I think making these will be really helpful when designing because I can look at the images for inspiration and know which colours are suitable for the book.




I created a mood board of objects because these will be really helpful when designing my cover. I can look at these to help with shapes and with making smaller graphics within the cover. I chose the most well known objects as I want people to see the cover and immediately associate it with the book.

Next I created a mood board of settings and this will be helpful if I want a certain scene on the front of the book or if the cover needs a background image on it.  These are also helpful to see the mood and atmosphere in the book.

I then created a mood board of characters and chose some main and some supporting characters which are all associated with the book. These images will be helpful for me to look at when designing because they will be the base for my take on the characters.

Next I created a mood board of the colour scheme of the book and these will be the sorts of colours most likely to appear on my cover. These were all taken from the images I found previously so I know that all of them relate to the book in some way e.g. the blue of Alice's dress and the pink of the Cheshire cats fur.

 
 

Then I created a mood board of typography to give me inspiration for fonts to use for the title. I focused on script style type because this is the style that suits the book the best as it is a fairytale and is also quite an old book and this is the style of the type that was common at that time. This will be helpful to look at when designing my main title because most of the fonts I chose are quite decorative so would suit a main title.



Lastly I made a style mood board with images that represent the sort of style I want to design my book cover in. Again I chose these images as most of them reminded me of something I would expect to see in a fairytale style book. This will be helpful for me to look at when designing the layout of the front cover and the style of the graphics.

 

 

 



Alice in Wonderland Mind Map

Before creating my mood boards I decided to do a mind map to help me brainstorm objects, characters and settings from the books. This was really helpful for my mood boards because I already knew exactly what to put in them. I also did some quick sketches for all of the objects and most of the characters and settings to help me when designing.

This is an overall view of the mind map:

Objects:

Characters:

Settings:

 



Alice in Wonderland Research

Once I chose my book I did some research to find some of it's existing cover, the first publisher and date and publisher logo plus the ISBN number and a barcode for one of the editions.

Initial Book Research

These are the three books that I researched for my redesign, I ended up choosing 'Alice in Wonderland'.

I chose 'Alice in Wonderland' because I know the story well and there are endless possibilities with the designs because the book is full of objects that are easily recognisable with the book. The other books would have limited my ideas a bit more because they don't have many objects that you would immediately associate with them.

Typographic Book Cover Research

I found 12 examples of typographic book covers that I liked and annotated them with my thoughts. This was really helpful because through this I found which style of book covers I liked and thought were most effective and colour schemes and typography that worked well. From doing this I found that script fonts worked well with decorative backgrounds which influenced my final design and also the use of negative space which I also used in my final design. I also found that contrasting bright colours with white is a really effective way to get a title or shape to stand out and I also did this in my final design with the white keyhole and black font to contrast against it.