In case you haven’t already heard, our New Talent 2023 competition is open and accepting entries. This week, our latest submissions come from two students of Theron Moore, a professor of graphics design at California State University-Fullerton.
Our first entry is a book design from Elise Allison, a recent graduate who studied graphic and interactive design. This assignment tasked Allison with creating a collection of three book covers and jackets that work together in a manner that was visually cohesive. Since the chosen three books had to be linked by author, publication, and/or genre, Allison chose to design covers for the first three books in A Song of Ice and Fire, also known as the “Game of Thrones Book Series” (above), which she is a big fan of. Her choice to limit her color palette to black, red, and off-white is striking and serves to compliment the brutal, bloody subject matter of the books. For the dust jackets, Allison creates different die-cut frames that complement the illustrations on each cover, which relate to each title in the series. For example, Allison interpreted the first book, A Game of Thrones, to be like a chess game, with the arched frame of the first book alluding to an incident where a character was pushed out of a window.
