My Website

My website is now up and running, please take a look:

www.pippaholman.com
www.pippaholman.co.uk

There are still improvements to be made and work to be added, but it is a start!

Final book Covers.

Final book covers, printed on heavy weight textured paper.

Headlong!

It was a time consuming mission, but its finally completed.

The layout of the book was quite a problem to solve. After producing numerous different layouts I decided on the format of a concertina book that would read downwards as I wanted the text to be fluid throughout the book. Also, the poem is about The Head that cannot stop rolling and falling down a hill, so I thought pages that could fall downwards would reflect and emphasise this idea.

Book Cover Design

I had to design a set of book covers for four existing books in the Puffin Classic’s collection. I had to redesign the covers so that they looked like a series that could be bought in a box set. My chosen books were A Little Princess, King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, Just so Stories and The Witches. I decided to create my designs mainly through typography, trying to create a feel to the type that would correctly represent the book. I wanted to interpret the story in a subtler way that clichéd imagery.

I used the typeface American Typewriter, that I hoped would look classic and authentic, to represent the stories that have been told through generations. I then adjusted and altered it to represent the theme of the particular story.

For A Little Princess, I wanted the type to appear smooth and silky, elaborate yet delicate. So I hand drew the type, making it up of smooth curvy lines, and I spaced each letter apart so they had more space lessening the sense of urgency. For the back cover of the book I enlarged a section of the type so it just appears as a pattern, to make the cover less empty and more eye catching.

The Witches is about excitement, magic and fun, so I simply applied a stroke to the type to make it seem as though it was glowing, and used strong sharp shapes and a bold striking colour scheme.

In the story of King Arthur, there is a sense of magic, romance and there is the powerful notion of the King. I thought a King playing card of the suit Hearts would represent these three things well, so this is what I themed the book cover around. Deciding the large text alone made the cover seem uninteresting and too serious, I drew a simple sketch of the King and added this to the design.

Just so Stories holds an assortment of fun lighthearted stories mostly featuring animals, so I created my design to capture the mix of everything that is inside the book. I think the back cover gives a tribal edge to the design that reflects upon the exotic animals in the stories, and gives the book more of a striking appeal aesthetically.

Zoom

Summer project for university, a teeny weeny book that teaches children the alphabet, following a roller coaster ride that takes you zooming and looping through the letters. Each page of the story is written in alliteration, for the child to really grasp the sound of the letter as well as the shape.