photo manipulated paperback covers
Delusions of Miss Daisy
With this randomly generated title, I was torn between interpreting the title as a murder mystery/thriller or a period drama. My thumbnails for the period drama were more engaging, so that's what I moved forward with.
The Phoenix Crown
This randomly generated title lead to a fantasy cover concept. The biggest challenge was determining the shape of the fire in the crown and deciding how it would interact with the text. I played with layering the fire over and beneath the text, but that decreased readability. In the end, I found a way to make certain parts of the title to appear as though they're burning.
the project
Process & Thoughts
To practice this method of designing for book covers, I randomly generated two different titles and designed the covers based off the title prompts.