design competition round 1 Rating Options

[brooklyneast05]

first round: book cover

first round is to redesign a book cover. you can choose whatever book you'd like. you need to do the full cover, so you need a front, back and spine. you need to set up the document to be one full piece though, not three separate images. here's an example:

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the front cover is 5 and half inches, the back cover is 5 and half inches and there's a 1 inch spin. so therefore the actual document is 12 inches wide and 8 and half inches tall.

this is just a sizing suggestion. you can change the sizing but make sure you're proportionate. don't do a 4 inch wide back cover and a 5 inch front cover. also keep in mind the spine size. the spine doesn't have to be one inch, but it needs to be considerably realistic. for example, don't redesign a book that's 700 pages and give it a 3/4th of an inch spine. there's no way 700 pages are going to fit into 3/4th of an inch.

send your design to me. you just needa give me a jpg or png image of it, not the whole file. if you're doing a book that you've read and you're including things in the design that people wouldn't get if they haven't read the book...give me an explanation with your entry so the judges will have a better understanding of your design.


send your entry to me by midnight may 15th


if you've got any more questions ask here or pm me.

[karmakiller]

Dang, Joseph has a lot of questions.

This is awesome, though! I can't wait to see what everyone does!