This exercise was part of a challenge run by my course provider in which we had recreate and redesign a book cover in our own way - here is the result:
I’m not much of a reader, but I do love movies! one of my all-time favourites being Blade Runner. It didn’t take me long to land on the book that it was based on from there. I love the cover for the original book, but I thought I’d throw my idea into the ring from a minimalist approach. My initial ideas were quite different from the outcome, with taking a photo of myself and wanting to go half and half with a robot, but after a few attempts, it didn’t go the way I wanted to go (I did get a funny pic of my cat though!) After going on a stroll through the city this morning however, I took some inspiration from an ad on the back of a bus that had the font laid out very similarly to the outcome. As I rushed back to my computer, I drafted it up and it started coming together a lot quicker. In the end, I decided that less is more, only using two colours (and a shade) pulled from the Blade Runner poster and having a few elements that pop.