New Animal Farm cover

Even though I'm pretty happy with the cover I have, I'm now toying with this new cover design idea. I've sketched it out really roughly, but I'm thinking it will have to be an illustration (which I'm pretty confident I can do) retouched in photoshop.

Set on a farm with barnyard animals as the main characters, the principal plot surrounds the pigs, led by Napoleon, and how they introduce communism to the farm only to become sour totalitarian dictators, eventually neglecting their rules, promises and comrades. In fact, they eventually epitomize the "two-legged" humans they initially swore as enemies.

On this cover, Napoleon -- dressed in Red Army garb-- stands upon a haystack-pedestal in a spotlight, surrounded by his perky-eared comrades, who surround him in the foreground shadows.

I'm thinking I'll need a good chunky typeface for "Animal Farm" to go in the haystack which Napoleon the pig is standing on, and have "George Orwell" as a serif in white down center in the shadows.

Animal Farm- layout

In cased you missed it, here is the second round of revisions to my Animal Farm book. These are only the first few pages, and I still need to make adjustments to the margins and put in new/interesting/political icons underneath the chapter headings, but let me know what you think and what else I can do to improve it. Thanks! -- C

Icons

I started this project by doing some stream-of-conscious icon-like drawings to get warmed up, and got inspired by one particular organic drawing. So I went on a tangent and started to create a typeface based on this organic form, that according to class-mates looks like a cross between bones and tonsils. I therefore name this typeface: "Bonsils."

Theater Posters

So as I research for this project I realise I don't actually know that many playwrights/ screenwriters, and of the ones I do know, I've only seen one or two of their works, but not three...

I've settled on doing this project on Tennessee Williams.

1. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
2. A Streetcar Named Desire
3. The Glass Menagerie or The Rose Tattoo

Unfortunately, the only one I'm actually familiar with is "A Streetcar Named Desire", but hopefully after reading numerous summaries on the other two I'll develop enough of an understanding to create posters for them. We'll see how it goes!

Book Project

So thinking along the lines of beautiful design, I've started to think about what "beauty" actually means. In my opinion, the definition of beauty is completely subjective, and can refer to both exterior appearance, as well as what may lay beneath the surface.

Using my own words, I hope to create a short book that will convey my feelings on this topic of beauty and, of course, in the most aethetic way I can.