Books

There is something about books that just appeal to me so much.

If I'm walking into the city centre to buy something quickly, I always manage to divert myself to Waterstones. Just walking in there and seeing book after book excites me inside and I just don't know where to start.

I've always loved reading and getting lost in my imagination. Like watching TV in my head. Reading calms me if I've had a tough day but also when you've stopped in a place where it's super exciting, you can't help but think "I NEED to go and read the next bit to see what happens!". It's worse when you know it'll be a few hours/days before you can find out the next segment of the story. I think reading is better than watching a film because you imagine the characters the way you want to, not the way the director in the film has. You can imagine the setting, the way the characters look and how things are said. It's fab.

Now we are getting the covers. I hadn't quite known that I liked book cover designing as much as when we were set a brief to design one. Once I got into re-designing the cover for "100 Years of Solitude", I realised how much fun it was. I could have adjusted it for days, weeks or even years. I went with my initial idea by taking the title literally and playing with typography. I ended up really liking what I produced and feel it is one of my strongest pieces of work this year. Others may disagree and say that it is quite "boring" but like I said in the previous post, I am in full swing in working in minimal and simplistic forms.