A Fraction of the whole by Nathan Burton.

Jules Verne Series.

For the around the world in 80 days book cover, it has a more interactive use which is different from normal book jackets. The actual cover of the book takes two forms one as that actual book cover underneath and a detachable sleeve for the front which includes a multi-choice spinning wheel.

The Journey to the Center of the Earth book cover also has to ways to view the cover one takes form as an illustrated acetate dust jacket, which when removed reveals another layer to the book covers image.

For the 20,000 leagues under the sea book cover, it uses a smaller dust jacket that when removed it reveals different imagery underneath. This works really well and adds more depth to cover creating the option of two different covers.


The last book in the series uses a pulled down mechanism to reveal the imagery underneath without having to remove the whole dust jacket. This adds to the interactivity of the book itself and isn't just a plain book but something that interesting to keep on the shelf.

Each book keeps to a themed colour scheme and in doing so makes it seem more of a collection. Having both a dust jacket and a different book cover underneath gives the book a bit more depth and interactivity to it, which is something I could take in to account within my set of books.

Rest, Relax, Read Series by Mike Burton.

This set of books is packaged really well and is something that I'm going to consider within my book series.

The promotional posters also work really well to and have instant impact with the use of colour and quotes from the books. Again this is something I will consider for my book promotion!

Icoeye

This is quite an interesting method of including a bookmark into the design of the book cover. The idea is that the bookmark comes with the book when purchasing it so that it completes the front cover. The imagery used within the covers are kept quite simple using the same typeface but changing the scale of it. The books work well as a set but are only complete if the bookmark it used!

Render Business Cards.

From: www.effektivedesign.co.uk

This business card works as a striking piece as its so bold in colour. Also the letterpressed type using a white ink on the black and orange gives the card more impact. The geometric shapes within the type relate nicely back to the theme of the business.

The Spook House Book Cover.

This is a really nice example of blind embossing. It works really well for the theme of the book and gives the cover a more tactile effect. Its a simple effect to use and is seen on quite a lot of book design.

FRAHER.

From: www.effektivedesign.co.uk

This business card design is simple yet effective. The use of the pink foiling gives the card a more quality feel.

The Population Stationary.

All from: www.effektivedesign.co.uk

The brand identity for The Population works really well as a whole. The limited use of colour highlights the stationary as a set and with the use of the different colours for the business cards, which gives each member of the company a different colour to set them apart.

Puffin Classics Sets of Books.

The way these books are packaged make them more suited for being a present for someone. The three books within the set are part of the puffin classics range which have been split down into the themes of the books. This is quite an effective method to package books to be sol as a set.

Alice in Wonderland Book Covers.

Within this collection of book covers, I feel that the ones that create more impact are the ones that just use the simple outline shapes and silhouettes. Using color is also a method that highlights the book cover.

More stamps...

Single Stamps...

Chemistry, Design: Jerczy Karo. Great shapes and overprinting. Nice use of simple imagery!

Celebrating the Centenary of the Telephone, Design Philip Sharland. Simple colour use works really well here.

Lovely use of line and colour!!!

These stamps are printed with a metallic gold and the printing and colour is great, clean and vibrant.

A beautiful set, great halftone images and typography.

More book cover from David Pearson...

Lovely use of a limited colour palette throughout the great ideas series, using different illustration styles to highlight the different books.

The book cover below works really well just using type alone, as his creates high impact within the design.

White's Books.

Illustration by: Petra Borner.
This style of illustration creates lots of impact for a book cover, really bold and simple use of imagery across the whole cover.

Illustration by: Stanley Donwood.
This cover design is so distinctively illustration by Donwood using the printing technique of lino-printing, which produces impact with the use of just line quality only. The colour within this cover again creates more impact as it work well with just the use of limited colour.

Illustration by: Joe McLaren.
Simple use of colour and quite a busy style of illustration for the cover.

Overall the set works really well even though each book cover has been illustrated by a different designer. They work so well because of the simple use of colour and the same layout throughout the series.

Popular Classics Relaunch by David Pearson.

Really simple yet effective book cover design. These were all printed on to recyclable newsprint which is good to see consideration of sustainable materials.

Penguin By Design - Phil Baines.

Re-design of all the Harry Potter Books.

This set of books were designer by M. S. Corley (as seen here...http://mscorley.blogspot.com/2009/02/harry-potter-redesign.html)

The use of just simple imagery work well within the book covers and gives them impact as first glance, which is also highlighted with the use of a limited colour palette.

Canon stamps.

The presentation of this set of stamps highlights the quality of the product, as its celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Canon SLR. The front cover of the booklet is also embossed with the image of a camera in a repeat pattern, which is a technique I'm looking in to using for mine. Overall the presentation booklet works well and is of a quality finish.

Classic Album Covers Stamps.

Each stamp set from the royal mail comes in 5 different formats for you to buy. Including the Prestige presentation set which is the most expensive to buy but perfect for a collector. Which means that this booklet is of a higher quality and more collectible, as this is something I want to include within my stamp set. Others just simply display the stamps on a card rather than in a booklet, or you can buy them just as a sheet of stamps. I need to consider this when designing my stamps as it needs to work across a range of formats.

Penguin Classic Books Collection.

The simple use of imagery works really well for these book covers and links them altogether as a series. There's also a really nice attention to detail and a sense of a quality product, which is something that I want to consider within my book covers. As I'm looking in to the different print processes such as heat foiling, screen print and blind embossing.
The images used also work really well as a repeat pattern across all of the books. Also the consideration of colour creates a bold impact on the covers and the simple use of just black and white works really well for the Dorian Gray cover, which also relates well to the theme of the book.