Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Boards

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

I think I have pretty much finished the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland book cover. I got it out the way slightly quicker than I had planned but I am happy with the results. I'm at home at the moment on my dads computer so the photos are uncropped and unadjusted. I took them in the photocube and I think they look good. I just need to make up the boards now. I'm also thinking of shooting a press ad.

Gold Foiling

I decided to gold foil the type on my Alice's Adventures in Wonderland book cover.

It turned out to be pretty easy, as the gold foil sticks to the carbon in printer ink.

On the first attempt we used newsprint to protect the print out in the heat press. Unfortunately the newsprint stuck to the printer ink as well.

Second time lucky and I'm really happy with how it turned out. I think the gold foil goes really well with the overall look and feel of the design. It ties in nicely with the 'classic' look I wanted to go for.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Sticker

Today I used the vinyl cutter to cut out a sticker to go on the front of the Alice's Adventures in wonderland book cover. I liked the idea of using a sticker on the front of a book to give it a tactile quality and a slightly more interesting look. However it didn't really work with this project for a couple of reasons: First the type on the bottle was actually too small for the machine to cut out and it ended up ripping and mangling it. I tried to enlarge it but it was still too small. The second reason it wasn't successful was because once the sticker was put on the book cover it was really hard to see and you couldn't really tell it was there at all. For these reason I won't be continuing with this route.

Patterns

I remember seeing books printed (I think) in the early part of this century that had beautiful marbled patterns on their inside covers. I'm not sure how these patterns were created but I thought I would have a go at creating my own. I set to work with acrylic paints and a sponge.

I think their slightly psychadelic, magical feel is very appropriate to Alice in Wonderland.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

I have decided to take in the Penguin Book design awards. I am going to enter the children's book category which is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I started to consider what visuals I had to work with and what would be appropriate images to use on the front cover.

I decided I wanted to base my design around the iconic bottle that has a label that says 'drink me' on. It is at the start of the book and kind takes Alice into Wonderland so I thought it would be appropriate to have on the cover, also I think that it something that most people remember about the book.

First I created a a bottle shape

I added a label

I also experimented with some text in a slightly off kilter, hand drawn style

I experimented combining the two. I am going to continue to develop these concepts.