BOOK FAIR PROJECT : Front Cover ideas & review

This is my first cover that I designed for my shapes in architecture book. I want my cover to look modern and simplistic. 

I thought it would look interesting to place some lines over my image so that the theme of geometrics comes across when people see it. As my book is about shapes I thought it would be interesting to see the lines representing that on the cover.

Here I experimented with putting boarders round both of my covers.

Here I experimented more with the lines cutting through the words. I changed it so that they both crossed at the top of the letter I in architecture. 

Here I experimented with a grey background because a lot of the imagery in my book is grey because of the buildings and architecture. I decided that I didn't like this and that a white background is a lot more clean looking. 

FINAL COVER : 

I decided in the end it would be a lot better to just go with my first idea and have a clean background without the lines cutting through the word. I used the boarder because I think it looks neat and ties it together.  This cover will be the first page in my book and will go inside my handmade paper.

Here are some photographs of the book fair which was at Leeds University. The first image is showing the whole stall which was for Leeds City College displaying everyone's work, and the second image is a close up to show my book and where it sat. It was quite daunting seeing them there and know that people have been looking at them during the day and judging them. I found that I wanted to know what people were thinking and I didn't like not knowing. It was strange to see my work displayed like that because I have never displayed my work publicly before and I have never had any of my work up for sale. The books didn't have prices on them but if a member of the public/someone visiting the book fair wanted to buy one of our books I think they could name their price. The idea of that was exciting yet scary as if mine sold and I wasn't there at the time it was sold I would never have known where it went. Unfortunately I don't think any of the books that we submitted to the book fair sold. 

I really enjoyed this project especially taking inspiration from Phillipp Klinger who I have a lot of respect for as I admire his work so much. I also liked having my own direction for this project as I could basically choose what I wanted to photograph for my book. If I was to do this project again I would like to have my images put into a more professional looking book rather than a hand made one and I would get one professionally made from somewhere like Jessops.