Book Cover Design - Part 1

 This project asks me to re-imagine a recently read book. I have chosen It Is All Right by Isabel M. Hickey. I love this book and have read it many times. It is currently out of print. I was able to obtain a few copies in the early 2000's from Isabel's daughter, Helen, who had continued the company after her mother's death.

It is a self-published book and has a leather cover with gold inlay print. Very simple. 

 

In the first sketches, I imagined doing a similar cover, adding color and depth to the gold star on the original. I did not want to change the symbol as it has meaning. The first sketch shows the words representing the meaning of each spike and I also imagined adding the text.

The third sketch, would place a depiction of the Tarot card "The Fool" with the text of the title superimposed over the card. 

 

                      

The fifth sketch imagines "the fool" walking up a mountain, and I toyed with using a sunburst and a sunset, all images derived from "the fool". This is that card for reference in the traditional Rider-Waite deck, as you can see, the mountain imagery is important on the card as well.