While Olga and I are eagerly awaiting for the arrival of the books. We would like to share with you some of the book cover designs I came up with and how we choose our final cover. Before the layout begins, we actually had to go through over 100 photos in order to pick our top 3 favorites. We narrowed down to two of our favorites, featuring Olga’s Axonometric Top as it would look the best on 9″x 9″ square format.
Cover #1 – I love this cover because the texture and color of the background really compliment the garment well. However, part of the photo was a little over exposed. The white blotch on the right started to bother me the more we I stared at this cover. The title of the cover also seems a little heavy at the bottom.
Cover #2 – This cover photo looks beautifully with how the photo was cropped. However, we both thought the overlapping of title on top of the garment seems a little distracting.
Cover #3 – We got some pretty good responds from our close friends and family members whom actually seen this cover. They loved the photo as well as the big bold title.
Cover #4 – This cover was our top choice. We both think the bright background worked really well with the texture of the garment. By having the book title placed closer to the spine, the photo and the title seems well balanced. It also draw your eye to the garment which is our top goal.
When it came time to choosing a back cover, first we needed to establish what a knitter would like to see there. Something similar to the front cover or something absolutely opposite. Spine is what also dictated the layout in this case, the colors blended really well in our top choice and texture in that photo is very well exposed.
The back cover featuring Duplicity pullover was our other favorite, but we thought scale of the back garment needed to be smaller in order for a reader/knitter pay attention to the text.
Now what is your favorite out of all these options?
We can’t wait to her your comments!
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The middle book. I do think that many of us do not wear sleeveless apparel and the sleeveless sweater on the front should be paired with a sleeved sweater on the back.
I definitely enjoy the middle top more on the back covers. I never have a problem focusing on the text even when it is over some colored or textured background. My only objection is items of the same value (if I am remembering the term correctly). One of my old jobs I had to scan covers and covert to black and white for a newsletter. Sometimes once they were greyscale, titles would just disappear into the background.