4.Introduce my friend Monica

Monica, my friend, is my very smart classmate. She come  from Seoul, South Korea. Her studying Craft Design Pre-Master course at LIPC for MA in Leicester, the UK. Sweet smile is often on her face, which makes her more lively.
Monica is very clever. She is very good at using Adobe Software such as Photoshop and Illustrator. She always finish the homework on time. I always take her as my model in study. She tells me that we should make good use of time. 
Monica is kind-hearted and is always ready to help others. Any student in my class who has trouble in study likes asking her for help. But she doesn’t like others to praise her, because she thinks what she did is ordinary.
I feel proud to have such a friend I hope we can hard work together to finish the digital design work well together.

3.Book cover design about Fashion illustration

Step 1.   I chose fashion illustrations as the theme of the cover design.

             First of all, I studied the following three types of illustrations of the cover, their common ground is very simple and intuitive, no extra decoration. They have a pair of illustrators to attract the attention of the reader, and then are minimalist style. I really like this cover, let me have the desire to buy.          

             

Step 2.  I began to design a book cover of my own illustrations. Then I chose a hand-painted illustrator from my college.

Step 3.After selecting the picture, I scanned the software with the scan 2 times, a black and white style, a color style. My idea is to use them on the front and back of the cover.

                  Step 4. Select the logo.I found a logo from the Internet, the above is a hanger shape, I think this is in line with my theme. So I chose it as my fashion illustrator Logo.

Step 5.  After selecting my image, I started using software PS to make the cover.

                   Step. 6 I cut out the picture I selected and intended to use it as a back cover.

Step.7 I chose to use the ruler tool to find the center position on the cover, and to determine the location of the spine.

Step.8 I determined the book's font and back cover, I chose handwritten style as the title, and under the title with the LOGO, also wrote the title on the spine. Paste the bar code on the back cover.

Step.9 I also designed a rectangular and triangular border, in order to make the whole cover structure more beautiful. Finally I wrote a brief introduction to the illustrations at the back cover.

Summary, the whole cover is completed. My design process is not complicated, my idea is to do a minimalist illustration set, and did not change the cover of the white background. The final performance of the comparison quite satisfactory.

 Reflection on my work

I did not change the background color of the book, and I chose the color of the illustrations is relatively simple, the overall look or slightly boring. I think the next time I can try to change the color more. And the font of the book is also routine, fashion illustrations use exaggerated little words will be more attractive, I will try to choose a more daring design.

2.Book cover pratice

This lesson I did the book cover design practice.First I found the picture I wanted to use on the web and put it into the photoshop software.

Then I used the ruler tools, as well as font tools and so on.

Afterwards I made the title, with font tools and book side seals.

finally, We can see I printed the author's name on the cover of the book and printed the barcode on the back of the book.
                                            Reflection on my work
This is a practice work, so I have a lot of deficiencies, such as I made the book side seal, but did not save it. Then I did not have a the book Logo of the book and Press Logo. But the subject of my book is abstract. I used to use a abstract painting cover, very simple and intuitive. Through my study of such books, I think it is in line with the theme.