Given a list of "banned classics", we were asked to select a book to redesign using the characters, objects, and setting as inspiration for the content/ story to be told for the cover. I chose the Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, to redesign partially because I actually read it and enjoyed it in high school, and partially because of the powerful writing— chalked full of imagry, culturally relevant themes, and the sporatic thoughts of a rather troubled teenager. I ended up creating three different covers that independently rely on imagry, typography, and non-computer elements.
cover 1: type based
This cover is intended to look like a 1950s schoolbook, playing on the irony that within the story our main character and narrator is telling us about what happened to him after he was kicked out of his 3rd prep school
cover 2: image based
This cover aims to show the main character's primary internal conflict regarding the coldness and corruption of the real world in comparrison to the sweet innocence of childhood
cover 3: non-computer based
The red hunting hat that our main character wears is a consistant symbol and theme throughout the story— it represents Holden's desire to stand out among the phonies and bastards that surround him
