We took three episodes from the “This Is Love” podcast and turned them into a trilogy of book covers.
Challenge
Design the book cover for the first episode in the trilogy, then implement consistent features throughout the rest of the trilogy design to connect them. The book cover must be interesting enough to entice the viewer, but also be a representation of the key elements of the story. Leaving a hint and a sense of mystery to the viewer.
Solution
After experimenting with different ideas, we chose a cover based on its ability to portray a vital part of the story, while catching the viewers' attention. We used the concept of having an almost mirrored look, but it’s two similar-looking scenes that demonstrate an important theme of the story for each episode.
“The Wolves” portrays dusk and dawn, which are the times when the wolves are most active. The mountains symbolize the range of obstacles the main character had to overcome.
“Something Large and Wild” offers the same mystery that the main character experiences when she wonders what is causing the sensations she felt while swimming. The top half is the surface and the bottom is the dark depths of the ocean.
In “Into The Ice”, the main character gets lost in an iceberg. She finds her way out by following these small, glowing, translucent organisms. They light her way out of the iceberg. The top and bottom split of the cover symbolizes the depths of the ocean, but also her confusion of which way is up and down.
Process
Typography
Simple and clean type to not take away from the graphical component of the covers, two sans-serif typefaces. Futura for the title because the relationship between x-height, cap-height, and ascenders seemed appropriate for the characteristics of each story. Especially the lowercase and uppercase “t” compared to an “h” ascender and the sharpness of the “W”. Then Trade Gothic Next LT Pro to support with a softer and more simple form to its characters. This is good for large bodies of text and smaller supporting text, especially for legibility. Also, it has a taller x-height than Futura PT which gives it slightly more contrast between the two typefaces.
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Color
The Wolves needed colors that represent dusk and dawn, and the mountainous landscape. Warm hues to represent the sunset and sun rising, black and gray for the mountain with highlights to add detail. Something Large and Wild has such a deep mystery to the story that we used deep dark colors to express that feeling and the time of day (evening) with a brighter color that pans out from the center on the x-axis like light would, but off-centered on the y-axis because the main mystery comes from below. Into the Ice primarily takes place underwater in an iceberg, so we used colors that give the feeling of the different depths of water and angles of an iceberg.
