Book Cover

This is my final product for my book cover project.  The top is the soft cover and the bottom is the hard cover, I suppose I should post some pictures of the book made and done as well later on.  The main idea, I might have stated in a previous post was just to take a book that does not have too many designs already created for it, and in my mind is somewhat untampered with, from a book cover point of view.  The book is the Bible, and through the process I began to understand why not many people have undertook this task, and it is because it is hard!  What new can you say about the bible?  The book is so old and so in the center of so many deep discussions and thoughts. But somehow I came up with something, and I am happy with the final product.

My original goal was to take the bible and put it into a more modern context using text and image, as well as target it at a younger audience.  I think I gravitated toward both of those ideas with the final product somewhat but I really feel as if my true view of the bible came out with this book cover, which even surprised me.  It surprised me to come to an understanding of how I viewed the bible, by someone else’s interpretation of my work.  It was either my teacher or a classmate who told me that my work made the bible appear as an intellectuals book. And then I took a second look, and realized thats exactly what it looks like and made me realize that I have always viewed the bible as something highly intelligent, influential, inspiring, and wisdom carrying.  I used to crave for wisdom, to find someone or something who knows the world, who is intelligent, intellectual, a thinker, someone or something who could help me understand the complicated world and all things in it.  I have always been drawn to people I view as intelligent, creative, and wise.  Then I ended this quest to find these people, and things that knew more than the average, and sat on a different level than the rest of the world when I found the bible.

The quotes found on the right sleeve of the hard cover fully represent my feelings about the bible and along with the image and text.  Who are we that God should be mindful of us?  I wanted the “holy bible” to be understated just because of how powerful those words are, I don’t feel they need to be exclamated with huge text.  I wanted the simple and quiet design, and when it sits next to the words “holy bible” it balances it out.

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