W7 – Colour Theory – LA – Q3

Strategic Design 1 – W7 – Colour Theory – Learning Activity – Q3 – Designing a Book Cover

• Design a book cover for one of the following:
  a.) “Rosemary’s Baby” by Ira Levin: use complementary colours to express anguish and uncertainty.
  b.) “Animal Farm” by George Orwell: use analogous colours with a contrasting accent to express disagreement and discontent.
  c.) “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett: use secondary colours to express naivety, honesty and harmony.
• The book cover must contain the title and the author’s name.
• You must clearly make use of colour to express the desired effects.

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I chose to design a book cover for The Secret Garden using secondary colours green, purple and orange.

My initial sketch:

I also did a digital sketch using before actually designing the cover:

The final book cover: