OBJECTIVE For this project, the objective was to design an interesting set of three book jackets for book titles of our choosing. We needed to take this opportunity to help reflect our personal interests and passions through the final designs. The jacket needed to have a cover, spine, back, and inside flaps, incorporating the titles, imagery, summary, and information about the author.

SOLUTION For my books, I chose The Lord of the Rings series and The Hobbit. I ended up creating a neatly designed cover, each having an illustration of an iconic sword, based on their counterparts from the movies. Around the sword, I added a circle, mirroring the “One Ring” while placing the Elvish script that is written on the “One Ring” around the ring in a light gray. Each book had a particular color associated with it, which changed the bar at the bottom, the ring, and the script text on the back, as well as select words on the inside flaps. While The Lord of the Rings books are numbered, The Hobbit, the prequel to Lord of the Rings, has no number, so to match uniformly, I placed an ‘H’ that matched the Roman numerals used for the other three books. For the inside flap for Tolkien, I decided to have his photo be in black and white, keeping the neat look of the design that used a specific color and avoiding it from clashing with the simplistic and modern look.