Personal Design Exercises

Here are a couple of designs that I worked on in my free time.

The first one is a packaging cover for Son Lux’s album “At War with Walls and Mazes”. I have had the album playing a lot lately and decided to create a design inspired by the sounds of the music and the imagery provided by the title.

I am going to be designing a cover for every book that I finish reading, so the second design is a cover for the Bret Easton Ellis book, the Rules of Attraction. The has a sort of detached and hazy quality to the way that is written. I tried to incorporate that into the illustration I did for the cover. The book starts and ends in mid-sentence. I like the way that is done, and thought I would include something similar in my cover design, by cutting off the beginning and end of the title’s typography.