This document contains summaries of 6 front book cover designs and 1 back book cover design created by Liam Heeley for The Hunger Games. Each variation highlights design elements like color contrast, font choice, composition of text, and background images. The final front cover variation discusses adding grid lines to both the front and back covers to tie the designs together in format.

1. Book Covers
Liam Heeley

2. FRONT VARIATION 1
• I chose this design for the front cover of the
hunger games because I liked the way the 2
colors, yellow and black, contrast with each other,
this allows the black text to stand out. The size of
the book name text is larger than the other text
so that the audience see the name of the book
first, before anything else. The font I used was an
eroded font, which I got off dafont, this links to
the theme of the book because it is derelict and
the film is about war. The simple design of the
book cover is effective because it makes the
reader focus mainly on the book title.

3. FRONT VARIATION 2
• This book cover design was very randomly thought of, I
came up with it as I was messing around with the text
and realized that the composition of the text worked
well with the composition of the colors, which makes
the reader have to read the cover in a certain way, abit
like the Z effect. The simple design, with the text and
background works well because it again allows the
reader to focus mainly on the text. I chose only 3 colors
and no image so that it isn't too complex for the
audience, but still makes them work out how to read
the text, in what order.

4. FRONT VARIATION 3
• I think this is one of my favorite book covers I did
because the background image, I took myself, which
was took on top of IKEA looking over Ashton, with
some filters added to it from illustrator. If I was to redo
this book cover, I would change the typography so that
the middle text is the title of the book and is enlarged.
Then the text outside is the another and the publishing
company in smaller text. I used the simple colors, black
and white, to create a vintage style book cover, which
could also be seen as modern, I did this to link to the
book which represents the two different types of
people in the synopsis.

5. FRONT VARIATION 4
• This design was originally supposed to be
different, I was putting the lines all over the book
cover then making words out of the spacing's of
the lines, but it didn't’t go right, so I rethought
the idea and came up with this. If I was to redo
this design I would make the words ‘DESTROYING’
and ‘MAKING’ more obvious, so that the
audience can see that they contrast with each
other. The simple colors, black and grey, work
well together because it allows the black text to
stand out and for the audience to focus on the
quote in the middle of the book cover.

6. FRONT VARIATION 5
• This simple, but effective book cover was designed
quickly, but is attractive to the reader because the
background has a filter on it, which makes it look
vintage, this is something different to solid color
backgrounds on many other book covers. I have used
the same font in another book cover design because of
the relevance it has to the book. The larger text, which
is on the title of the book, is important because it
allows the audience to focus and see the title of the
book before anything else on the book cover. I added a
red box on the bottom half of the box and turned
down n the opacity to add abit of character to the
cover.

7. FRONT VARIATION 6 (SIMILAR TO
BOOK COVER 3)
• This book cover is very similar to book cover 3,
but I have adjusted the composition of the
text. I have done this by making the name of
the book the biggest text on the cover so that
the audience focus on this first. I thought this
was important that I changed the composition
of the text because the title of the book is the
most important thing on the book cover, so
therefore I made it stand out more than
anything else.

8. FRONT VARIATION FINAL
• This is my final book cover, which was originally supposed to
different to how it was finally designed. To start the text was
smaller and the grid effect, the lines on the book cover, was not
originally there, it was very simple. But I wanted to try make my
cover even better than how it was, so I started to mess about by
adding lines, which then eventually led me to adding lines onto the
back cover aswell, so therefore the front and back cover have the
same format. The font used in the book cover is very formal and is a
serif font, which links to the books synopsis because is is in a very
controlled environment. If I redid this book cover, or adjusted it, I
would make the text slightly bigger on the title of the book so that
the audience see it before the author. I would also design the grid in
a type of way that they need to follow the lines to read the text.

9. BACK COVER VARIATION 1
• I designed this as my back cover as I like the
simple, but effective design. The lines that
separate the title of the book and the author
adds a formal format to the book cover. The
background is an image that I took myself and I
simply added a gradient and a blur to it, which
gives it the grey blue effect. The two words
‘HOPE’ and ‘FEAR’ are in a bigger text size as they
are opposites and counteract each other. The grid
effect on the book cover adds a little bit more
complexity and makes the design that bit more
unique.

10. FRONT – BACK - SPINE