How Are You Covered?
A STUDY OF BOOK AND MOVIE COVER DESIGN
About Got You Covered
They say don't judge a book by it's cover...
But that is precisely what this blog aims to do!
A. Lynn is an Industrial Graphic Artist and Technical Writer for the government by day... Which is absolutely as boring as it sounds, quite frankly.
But that is precisely why so many of us turn to the media to escape the doldrums of life. To lead us in this charge away from reality, we look to the Covers of movies and books first - Covers being the precious portholes into the world that awaits us on the other side any given story.
So what is a choosy consumer to do when faced with so many options? Even worse - How does a would-be story, movie, or book even get that consumer's attention in the first place?
Is there a secret code? A recipe? An amulet; rain dance; magic spell? What?
That is precisely what this blog will aim to uncover, leveraging not just tools from the Graphic Design trade to examine book covers, but by also combining favored storytelling methods too, like Save the Cat, in order to examine