Photography Experimentation and Initial Cover Design

I began by doing photography experiments in the style of the offset posters - however the lighting wasn't good and the camera quality was also poor. Despite this, I decided to make a mock up of the design in order to test the layout before I got better quality photographs.

For the mock up the colours were heightened and the only addition to the design was an illustration of a horse placed on the glue bottle. There was some editing of the 'animal farm' type layout as part of the spec was to use type as a big aspect of the design. Often designs have been chosen in the past for their successful use of typography. The quick edit attempted underneath was less successful, the editing to the type felt random and out of place. It was better to go with something with equal kerning and more simplicity.