20/03/14 Blog Task

Matthew Rutters Rough Concept comments.

(Work to be uploaded when home/early tomorrow as it needed to be photo/scanned)

For this task I came up with 8 concept ideas, two front covers, two for each recipe and 2 ideas concept designs that could work for any recipe. I’m single honors illustration so I wanted to include illustrations in my concepts. I designed a few characters for the book, making sure there gender friendly.

The first front cover ha floating illustrations placed in interesting locations with the text wrapped around them. The second is a meadow scenery stretching over the front, spine and back cover with a little fox character included.

The first and second soup designs are photos mixed with illustrations (think Charlie and Lola by Lauren child) mix and matching them to create dynamic illustrations.

The next recipe pages are the Wild garlic presto and concentrates on lush scenery backgrounds with nice colors and little photographic elements.

The last two are dynamic sloping and curving designs that could work for any recipe.

I looked at the work of Lauren child and how she mixes photographic elements with illustrational drawings.

I also looked into children’s picture books that use a lot of illustrations such as the “Disney cook book”, “Dora and Diego Lets cook” cooking with “Winnie the poo” and “The everything kids cookbook” that has a lot of spot illustrations

After looking at other peoples work I realize that I need to research a lot more into front covers and what makes a dynamic front cover. I also need to be carful that the illustrations don’t distract for the overall designs.