And here is the final completed book cover!
I decided to pick out the shade of purple on the wings of the butterfly by using this colour shade as the background colour for the other sides to the cover. The paler, more textured surface used for the background on the front image I felt would not create as much depth to the book.
To help hint further that the book relates to cosmetic surgery, I added the line.. "no incisions made" deliberaely near to the blood resembling ink lines, as I am hoping the word "incision" will make the viewer think of surgery incision lines......
If you look closely at the back cover and the far right panel (which will be the inside panel) you will noticed the repeated silhouette of the "stitched arm" shape taken from the front cover. This was again to help subtely hint at the idea of surgery. I wanted the them to continue both onto the back cover and the inside panels.
As the author has written this book using her knowledge from working within the beauty industry then I felt that the reviews for the book needed to be selected appropriately. I therefore opted for the cover to show 2 positive reviews.- The first review is a brief sentence by Channel 4's stylist Nicky Hambledon-Jones, as I feel that a lot of women know of her and what her programmes are aimed at (..the idea of her "10 years younger" programme). The second review, which is displayed on the inside front panel, is written by the Life & style Editor at the Guardian paper.- I chose the Guardian as this is quite a respected paper and while visiting the guardian.co.uk I came across a whole "Life and Style" section with several interesting features on fashion,health, make-up & lifestyle etc....
Deciding where to display the authors name took some time to finalise. In the end I chose the top right corner to display the name for two main reasons. Firstly, there was conveniently an are of empty space and secondly I wanted to position the name near to the two yellow wheels to try and create the idea the these wheels were "turning" out the name....(looking back, maybe I should have included a few motion lines or something to suggest movement from the wheels to help stress this point more).
I chose the publishers "Apple" simply because while looking at a few different publishers ( Apple, Universe, Trotman) I read on the Apple-press website that Apple- "is a leading publisher of highly illustrated lifestyle books with particular emphasis on food and drink, home decoration and craft, beauty and fashion, sports and leisure, and gardening." ....therefore as my book relates to the beauty industry, and also the fashion industry to some extent, that this publishers would be the most appropriate. (see http://www.apple-press.com/about.asp for the full description).
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