Mother Pop
Book Designs
Role:
Bookcover design
3d design
About Mother Pop Project:
Potential Submittal Work / Self Study
This book tells the historic origin story of the Pop art movement from its early beginnings as a creation of British art group “The Independent Group” to the different stylistic approaches taken and incorporated into the movement and its consistent influence on modern media, entertainment, and art/design trends.
I was tasked to create two distinct book covers that could visualize the book and its theme.
Version 01:
This first book cover design incorporates at least three different Pop art elements such as photography, bright contrasting colors, and comic outlines. I had been inspired by pop artist Roy Lichenstein. Lichenstein would create comic inspired artworks, with heavy dark outlines emphasizing a dominant visual, a style I added to this design as seen in the font style and outlined elements from the pointing hand and globular shapes. Those globular shapes are photographs of acrylic pour which have been modified in photoshop replicating a faded printing style. The design has about three different colors (red, blue, yellow) in addition to cream white and a grey black, colors commonly scene in comics.
Programs:
Photoshop
Blender
Procreate
Responsibility:
book cover design
3d design
product photography
Version 02:
Programs Use: Photoshop | Procreate | Blender 3D
For this second version, I was inspired and influenced by Andy Warhol who for many of his artworks, used printmaking and photography as central tools. I wanted these book design versions to be print focused. I searched for vintage Hollywood magazines at a local thrift store, and cut out actor and character images, scanned them and with photoshop, created a pattern, reminiscent of Andy Warhol’s “Marilyn Monroe” silkscreen painting. The color scheme for this design is more experimental focusing on a negative photographic mode, highlighting the head patterns, and pop font styles. The back is a contrast to the front design, it has a full cream white color background, and the head pattern is in its original color scheme or positive.