NHDR Book Cover Design for UNDP, China
Designing this book cover took me almost a hundred years of time, unfortunately none of them were adopted. The design they finally picked to me looks really boring... the practice of designing book cover made a skillful graphic designer, from that perspective I have never regretted about the hard work I put into this project.
Friday, December 16, 2005
Design No. 1
Colored stone contrast with red caption. I favor intensive colors and this design showed my taste.
Design No. 2
Sea and beach, how nice. Though it has nothing to do with Human Development.
Design No. 3
A pair of TaiChi fish, I used this image to symbolize the delicate balance in human development.
Design No.4
A collage of people from different social levels, age groups, geographical areas in China. Well, it looks quite close to the theme of human development in China, right?
Design No. 5
A color variation of design No. 4.
Design No. 10
My coworker, the NHDR report team leader, comes up with this idea of using map of China on the cover page. I am not satisfied with my illustration - it looks dull.
Design No. 11
Old man with a young girl, the space between is called generation gap.
Design No. 12
A color variation of design No. 11.
Design No. 13
Again, using image of Chinese people and experiment with colors.
Design No. 14
This paper-cut image is the symbol artwork of famous artist Mr. Lv Sheng Zhong. It looks human, but could also symbolize birth control.
Design No. 15
Another design using Lv’s paper-cut image. One of my friends pointed out that it looks like a devil in anger.
Oh no...
Design No. 16
A man’s hand profile overlaps with a lady’s hand profile. I favored this one, if there were more time I could do a better job with illustration too.
Design No. 17
An experiment of abstract profile of human and bird. Neat?
Design No. 18
That’s my eye, staring out from the book cover, and asking: still not Okay? Please make your decision...
No luck.
Design No. 19
This is the last design, which I made as a gift design to the NHDR team leader. After working together on this bookcover design project, we have become great friends, which is a even more valuable output of this design project besides learning design skills.
Design No. 6
A color variation of design No. 4.
Design No. 7
The big boss like profile of human faces, so this design is customized for his taste. I used the profile of myself.
Design No. 8
A color variation of design No. 7.
Design No. 9
A color variation of design No. 7.