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OUGD603 | Extended Practice | Brief 05 | Development - Sketches & Ideas | Student Design Award 2018 - Children's Cover Award 'Nought & Crosses' by Malorie Blackman

Initial Sketches
The initial sketches are illustrations influenced by previous, examples and entries on bechance 'Noughts & Crosses' book cover design. The brief outlines that the book must be able to attract children and young adults to pick up and read the book. Therefore below are some quick rough sketches semiotics of Noughts and crosses, illustration of hands crossing their pinky fingers, school illustrations like desk, hearts to symbolise the two main characters forbidden love, chalk board with noughts and crosses and plasters which are round like the 'noughts' and the longer plasters crossing across from each other to make a 'cross'. These sketches will be vectorised via Adobe Illustrator to digitalise them, additionally to make it quicker to test colour schemes.  




Illustrator vectors
Below are some vector images of our sketches vectorised. 




Typefaces
Below are the selection of typeface which has been complied together. These typefaces are  mainly sans serif this is due it is more legible for the target audience children, teens and young adults to identify. Yet the there is one serif font which looks appropriate for the books context. Therefore a typeface which is simple and easy to read is vital it must attract new consumers. The typefaces have a mixture of boldness, thinness, upper case and lower case. 

Colour schemes
Below are two colour scheme which represent the 'Noughts and Crosses' book storyline and genre. These colour schemes were mainly inspired by the Penguin examples of the Noughts and crosses book covers. The brighter colour schemes from previous entries did not suit the book's storyline e.g. yellow and magenta. The only bright colours that I added to my colour scheme are red, silver, bronze and gold. By experimenting this colour schemes on Adobe Photoshop it is helpful to see which colour scheme works in harmony to the illustrated vectors. 





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