OUGD405 Studio Brief 3 - Front Cover Ideas
It was necessary to look into the front covers of a variation of books to gain a good understanding of successful front covers. A combination of photography books, antique books and case bound books are all relevant to analyse as these will be used within the publication. Photography books tend to have really clear, high quality front covers which clearly identify themselves as photography publications. A professional, high quality book is pertinent within photography books as it suggests that the content inside is also high quality. Photographers need to stand out and their publications reflect what type of photographer they are as they reveal themselves through these publications in order to be known and regarded amongst others. Therefore high quality, unique books are of the up most importance, along with fluidity to show their work/stories through these books.
Antique book covers followed the same trend of Victorian designs. William Harry Rogers was one of a number of talented artists who worked on providing illustrations for books in the middle of the nineteenth century. His designs exhibit a strong, even obsessional, attention to the detail of ornament, and a mastery of the forms of its proportion. Rogers clearly delighted in the intricacy and denseness of ornament. This is as true of his book cover vignettes and spine designs as of his book illustration work. However, his imaginative powers did not extend much into the pictorial. The delineation of human or of animal forms scarcely occurs on his cover designs. He stands alongside other artists of his time for the certainty of his handling of form. On occasions, he shows a combination of opulence and attention to detail that is quite unsurpassed.
McLean, Ruari. Joseph Cundall: a Victorian Publisher Pinner, Middlesex: Private Libraries Association, 1976.
Antique book covers followed the same trend of Victorian designs. William Harry Rogers was one of a number of talented artists who worked on providing illustrations for books in the middle of the nineteenth century. His designs exhibit a strong, even obsessional, attention to the detail of ornament, and a mastery of the forms of its proportion. Rogers clearly delighted in the intricacy and denseness of ornament. This is as true of his book cover vignettes and spine designs as of his book illustration work. However, his imaginative powers did not extend much into the pictorial. The delineation of human or of animal forms scarcely occurs on his cover designs. He stands alongside other artists of his time for the certainty of his handling of form. On occasions, he shows a combination of opulence and attention to detail that is quite unsurpassed.
McLean, Ruari. Joseph Cundall: a Victorian Publisher Pinner, Middlesex: Private Libraries Association, 1976.
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