I digitised my sock idea, trying to create as much texture as possible in the sock so that it didn’t end up looking flat and boring. I really like how the red pops off the page at you.
I also tried out the design without the socks in it and just as a typographic piece. I do like the simplicity of this but I prefer the context of the sock, it also makes it look a lot more visually interesting.
After some feedback people said that the socks looked a little flat and too stylised. I was asked to look at pictures of socks to get the right shapes. Someone also suggested that the socks could be hanging off the washing line. So I tried the washing line idea and really liked how it made the design flow down. The only downside of this is that I have had to hyphenate the authors name to fit it all onto the sock.
I also tried to have the cover mirror on the back like with George's Marvelous medicine cover that I looked at previously. However, unless I aligned the text like with the cover down the socks it makes the blurb a bit hard to read.
For the back of the book, I thought it would be a more interesting idea to use the exerpt from the book to be handwritten on some lined paper to give it a bit of context. I found this graph paper, which reminded me of school so I thought it would be a perfect, nostalgic fit. The rest of the blurb I kept really simple in a quite quirky font to represent the humour of the book.
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