Christmas tasks

For the tasks set over Christmas, the ideas were to have different means of creating designs of which most had a restriction and used a software of which its primary use isn't to create designs with. These tasks were set in order to stay away from the cliches and stereotypical first ways of designing the covers, making us think about the different ways to approach the cover designs.

1. The first task was to use a word document in order to create concrete poetry which reflect the books chosen. This allowed the first exploration of how typography can be used in order to create a design. For the designs words were used of which related to each book. 

2. The 2nd task was to use an excel spreadsheet in order to create designs from. This gave the restrictions with the colours used and the size columns, which created pixel style results.

3. The third task was to listen to a piece of music of which relates to the books chosen, perhaps with the time period or origin. Then with the music chosen the task was to create music notation as a response. The task allowed the less obvious interpretation of the books, with using this obscure way as a rule to creating the designs. The music I chose to listen to for the task was a piece of danish folk music, as two of the books chosen had the origin of Denmark. 

4. The 4th task was to take photos of objects that symbolise the themes in the book, looking for less obvious imagery that is mentioned in the books chosen. Two photoshoots were took, with the 1st one being primarily for the book Lagom, as the concept of Fika is an important aspect of the book. The second photoshoot was for all three book covers with objects used such as ; pine cones, logs, bells, trees, house, books, tea cup, toadstools, moss and textures such as jumpers, mats and rugs.