My final book sleeve designs continue to make use of contemporary hand-cut collage that I experimented with. I chose to use this method and aesthetic because I felt it would attract a new, younger audience to read the intellectual writings of these famous philosophers, whereas the existing Penguin covers for these books make use of historical images and may not appeal much to the younger demographic.
I chose the colour scheme of these two light colours, a slight off-white and a pale blue, as both have symbolic meaning which can represent various themes conveyed in my chosen books. For example, white is associated with light, goodness, purity and virginity. Blue is often associated with similar meanings, such as wisdom, intelligence, faith, truth and heaven, all of which have links to philosophy, beliefs in a higher deity and other such themes.
However, if I were to return to this task in the future, I would experiment with manipulating the main image to fit the entire cover and break the use of Marber's grid, which I utilised for this task. To do this I would move the top panels of typographic information closer to the middle or bottom of the page, stretching it across the image.
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