Re-imagined Lord of the Flies

I decided to take one of my fave novels, Lord of the Flies and pay homage to the dude who ruled the Drosophilia Thomas Hunt Morgan.

I did this really quickly using the Wikipedia photos and basic shapes in Photoshop.

I had a few labs in university working with Drosophilia and I’ll never be the lady of the flies. They all died. No genetic information to report on next generation Diptera for me. Luckily more organized and systematic people like Thomas Hunt Morgan existed to figure all that cool stuff out.

Alternative Book Covers

Alternative Book Cover

I wasn’t able to figure out how to replace the picture with this new one so i did a fading in of the picture, it looks a little brighter than i wanted it to but i am content with the turn out. This is my favorite book and i thought that the angel would symbolize a reason why the sister felt OK with not wanting to help anymore.

DesignAssignments366: Alternative Cover

This is my Alternative Book Cover, as per the assignment submitted by Jim Groom. I’ve been really obsessed with all of the icons offered by The Noun Project, and I wanted to stick with the minimalist-fever we’ve all caught, so I used the icon for “woman” found here, and I used Photoshop CS4 to help [...]

Alternative Book Covers

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

Alternative Book Covers: Naked Lunch

I just submitted this as an assignment, and I will be doing a quick tutorial for this one in Photoshop and GIMP shortly. It is either a two or three star assignment in my mind, and the inspiration comes from this contest from a few years back. I took William S. BurroughsNaked Lunch and interpreted the title somewhat literally with an image I found from this Guardian article.

Here is the version of the book I own (this is not a picture of my book, just one like it I found on the internet):

I simply grabbed the background color of the book cover and filled it into my image and then copy and pasted the title and author’s name from this image into the project. I then posted the image of the nude people eating lunch between the title and the author’s name. The inspired touch was having the motion picture by Anthony Bourdain rather than David Cronenberg. This was too much fun.