For my research I visited Village Books, an independent bookshop offering a range of contemporary art, fashion, design and photography books and magazines as well as self-published zines. I was interested to see some contemporary takes on book covers, as when I visited a more regular bookshop it was hard to find a decent amount of well designed covers. At Village, a lot of the covers I saw were abstract and mostly simply photography. I found a book called Sugar Paper Theories by Jack Latham that had an interesting diagram on the front - this reminded me of my own project and gave me an idea of a nice way to draw a science-y diagram The colours we're also very nicely chosen and complemented each other as well as the title well, whereas a lot of the books in WHSmith are monochrome and stick to all blue or yellow etc. Furthermore, David Shrigley's book Fully Coherent Plan hosts a lovely naive drawing / diagram that tajes on a more abstract approach.
I also was surprised to see another cover inspired by vintage composition books: The Photographer's Playbook by Gregory Halpern and Jason Fulford. The cover is very simple in design, but takes on the same approach that I am trying to achieve. It shows me the main elements of what is needed for a cover in this style: the black spine, large label etc.
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