Book Cover Design Process

Graph paper also used for the double page spread is now given a new lease of life as the spine, tying the recipe pages and the covers together.

Typewriter style font is used, interjected with handwritten font to give a playful, rustic feel. 

Masking tape is then underlaid to continue the handmade look. 

A soft, muted green is then used as the background colour for the cover and reverse. The colour continues the rustic, countryside feel, represents the colour of military uniforms and is also gender neutral. 

Hessian was then overlaid providing another texture that could be representative of the war period. 

A luggage tag was then overlaid over the hessian to represent the people that left during the war as well as people that had to move because of conflict. 

The same fonts from the spine are then used on the cover. 

A suitcase illustration is then included on the reverse, on theme with the luggage tag. 

A wooden spoon illustration was then added to portray that this is a recipe book. 

Another texture is added in the form of torn paper. Again, this gives the reverse page a scrapbook feel that can be linked to the double page spread.

Barcode is added.

British summertime fruits are added to the cover. This implies further that the book is about food, while still keeping the countryside, homemade feel that is prevalent throughout. A poppy illustration is added alongside as this is a familiar flower associated with the war. 

A duck character is included to add a sense of playfulness and give the impression that the book is suitable for children. 

The blurb is then added overlaid on a plain white background. 

I then changed the plain white background to graph paper as I thought the white was too stark. This also continues the texture on the spine onto the reverse of the book. 

Blurb font was then made bigger to make more use of the space available and to make it easier to read.

A tea stain was then included to add a playful, 'messy' element, continuing the theme of a countryside kitchen.

More ink splatters were then added to round off the reverse page.