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Hi Leanne,

Saw this and thought of you

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Saul Bass Poster

This is one of my favourite Saul Bass film posters. I particularly like the text and have taken the style of this as inspiration for my own text in the Penguin book.

Book Text Idea

The idea for my book cover was inspired by the original Penguin book covers, designed by Edward Young and then later developed by Jan Tschichold. The cover is split into three sections. I have used the colour orange to indicate that the book is fiction, in reference to the original colour-coding system. To be honest, I like the way that it looks now, without an illustration, as i think it is quite striking but, of course, this is an illustration blog, so therefore I will have to put in an image.

New Type

This is a new type that I have created for the Penguin book brief. It is based on the font "Corbel".

Saul Bass

When I received the Penguin competition brief, in which we are required to create a book cover for the book The Secret History by Donna Tartt, I immediately began to think of images in the style of Saul Bass. I would like to recreate a look of playful yet simplistic lines and shapes and will be looking at the work of Saul Bass throughout this project.

Personal Project - Circus Alphabet

This is the final alphabet which I have created for my personal project, based upon the theme of the circus. I created the letters in the same way as the previous letters, my cutting and pasting photocopies of previous circus fonts. I then traced the lines using Illustrator. I made two of each letter to give variety.