Above are my first attempts at designing a front cover to go onto both my photo books, one for Leeds and one for London. The top one is more of an experiment with the possibility of creating a fill for some text from one of my photographs but my idea never really went past that.
The next two are a bit more of a bold concept and I guess quite in your face. I personally quite like the use of text over images but the text has to be well placed and work with the image. I am not by any means saying that this is the case with my designs but they are a first attempt and could be worked on further when I take more photographs.
The third design is a bit more of a traditional take and yet still keeping to a very simplistic design. I don't want to overcomplicate any of these front covers so I am trying to keep everything very basic and simple as well as making it look very professional as this is the last ting I will do on my degree.
The name is another sticking point as I have provisionally gone with NEW BRITISH PATRIOTISM as a means of describing the effect and movement towards a new patriotism's that encompasses the multiculturalism of Britain today. It also acts as a play on words with organisations like the BNP, but this does make me worry that it may come across as racist. On the flip side I guess the photographic content should help to steer the book away from these connotations and hopefully everyone will understand the message behind the project. With that said the name is not set in stone so could still be changed.
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