Manifesto: Shaping the Mind, Book Cover Series

Book Cover Series for MFA Type Composition

Class:

Type Composition

Instructor:

Andrew Loesel

Major:

MFA Graphic Design

Assignment:

Create 3 book covers as part of a series involving the manifestoes:

The Communist Manifesto, Common Sense & On the Shortness of Life.

Audience:

15-18 year old High School Students

Design Decisions:

Basic geometric shapes in layered compositions to represent the layers of the mind and decision making. Bright colors to attract the audience with shapes replacing letters on the title to show a playful subtleness to relate to a teenager's mind. Serious topics dealt in a childish manner represents the psyche of a teenage mind, and encourages the parents, teachers and children to see the content more visually.

THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

By Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

The shape of a modular quadrilateral (4-sided figure) represents the core of the manifesto which involves talks of equality and modularity in a society.

COMMON SENSE
By Thomas Paine

What shapes better than stars and stripes to tell the story of the founding of the United States of America.

ON THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE
By Seneca

A manifesto that talks about the timeline of mankind, and the lifespan of every human—circles and the lunar cycle represent without much interpretation the fallacy of time itself.

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