GENRE BENDING
Book Cover
We were asked to pick our favorite movie and then pick a book genre that was nothing similar to our movie, to examine what makes a mystery book cover, a mystery book cover. The colors? The imagery? The typography?
I chose the movie Grease, and chose the book genre, mystery.
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Getting a movie with the complete opposite genre to emulate the feeling of another genre was definitely a harder design challenge, but it made me dive deeper into the movie's plot and pull out bits that could lean towards mystery. The goal of this project was to create a book cover that made this opposed genre feel like it fits into this new genre because of the type, imagery and color palettes we chose to utilize.
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I wanted to play on the notion of how there are "two different Sandys" in this movie because her drastic style and personality change that occurs and how it has a mysterious quality to it. Using Illustrator, I hand-drew shapes to make Danny and the two Sandys, keeping a dark and minimal color palette.
GENRE BENDING
Magazine Cover
For another section of this genre bending project, we were asked to go find two well-known magazines that are somewhat opposite from each other so we could create a new magazine cover. I went and picked out a People magazine and a Dogster magazine.
The goal of this project was to create a funny new magazine cover by combining the two magazines into one. We chose one magazine to base the information and photos off of, and the other magazine to base the style of the magazine cover on. I chose to use Dogster's information and photos as inspiration, but did it in the style of a People magazine cover!
I made this new magazine cover below on Photoshop and InDesign, with photos from Unsplash.