Chosen Book

After researching both books and understanding the stories, the novel I have chosen to create a book cover for is The Outsider by S.E. Hinton. I have chosen to create a cover for this novel for a number of reasons which I will explain below.

Personally it was a straightforward choice as The Outsiders book had a lot more to offer, in terms of book cover ideas. The story and plots themselves allowed for great brain storm ideas. This was because it had just one main plot which developed through the book allowing me to concentrate on that story. Whereas, in What A Carve Up! there where different stories for all the characters so there was not a certain theme to be influenced by.

in addition, the wide variety of book covers already designed for The Outsiders gave me vital inspiration and design ideas which will help greatly when creating my book cover. These included ideas for typography, imagery and colour palettes. Again, What A Carve Up! failed to inspire me as there was a lack of book covers designed for the novel.

In general The Outsiders has more topics and cultural references which I can play with to create relavant design ideas. These include things like the rivalry between the gangs, the 1960's hairstyles, the denim clothing, cigarette smoking, burning building and death of a character.

In conclusion, I believe The Outsiders is a better read and due to the reasons stated above I will create a book cover for this novel.