Featured in Santa Fe College's Student Exhibition 2020
Getting to know how Graphic Design first started and how past styles inspired and improve the modern style was a wild rollercoaster ride for me. What I took from the history is that we should learn and inspire one another. It's difficult to create something new without going through a process.
Feed had a futuristic concept and I dared myself to pair it with a style that do not normally fit with it. An artist that I'm very familiar with this style is Gustav Klimt but I wasn't too confident in recreating his style on this book. Then I found out about Egon Schiele and his paintings. The way he paints his models was my key inspiration to my own. The best example of that is the sullen eyes and high cheekbones of the character on the cover.
Akata Witch was a really fun book to design as I'm already familiar with Art Deco. I wanted the cover to look like one of those New York posters with a model as the focal point. The drop shadows also help achieve that illusion of depth, as if the illustration is three-dimensional. The back cover is kept simple with a frame.
This book cover was probably the one I had the hardest time with. Dada in general is pretty chaotic and it's difficult to achieve that while making it look good. So my solution was to be playful with my layout and book title. I even made a ticket and paper ripped edges in Photoshop to have that "physical" aspect to it.
