Alternative Book Covers

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Take a title of a well-known book and re-design the cover to suggest something entirely different. For example, the book cover for Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (an apocalyptic novel about a father and son facing the end of the world) is reframed as a feel-good book about effective parenting (see image). Original idea found through this design contest on Book Ninja in 2008.

Image credit: Ingrid Paulson’s  reimagining of The Road by Cormac McCarthy

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For this redo assignment, I tried to make another book cover. This is my original post, and I think it turned out fantastic. This

For this assignment, I was told to design an alternate book cover. However, I am loosely following it because I felt that the book’s

The Box in the Woods is a book by Maureen Johnson. It details a high-stakes treasure hunt surrounding a mysterious box in the woods, containing

I liked the idea of messing with the meaning of a book title.  Many are symbolic or draw from an important line in the story.

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This assignment is to take a cover of a well-known book and re-design the cover to suggest something completely different.  I scanned my bookshelves

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This was the quickest assignment I have ever done, but it was still some fun.

The assignment was to take a title of a well-known

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For this assignment i used Gimp. I did a Google search of the book cover of my choosing ( i used my sister’s keeper). I
As promised yesterday, I did two screencasts for the Alternative Book Cover assignment, one for photoshop users and one for GIMP users. What you will