When doing some research into the book I found out that it was about a village that begins to receive anonymous letters accusing people of different crimes. I also looked into some already existing book covers for the moving finger and thought about colour theory.
My First Design
My initial idea was to included a letter on a dark wooden bench. I also wanted the letter to be faded so that the author and title would stand out. I knew I wanted to use the authors signature as it is a common theme on Agatha Christie novels. I also knew I wanted her name to be the largest text as she is very famous for writing mysteries. I choose a sans serif font to make the title appear serious and more old fashioned as the story was originally published in 1942. However I was not completely satisfied with my final design and decided I needed to further develop my ideas.
Final Design
I took some of the ideas from my initial design but developed them by adding a pointing finger as it links more to the title. I did this by taking a photograph of a hand and then drawing it with my graphics tablet. I also lowered the opacity of the letter so the text would stand out more. I did not like the brown desk idea so I decided to combine some colours that I think relate to the mystery book genre. I choose green because penguin made all of their mystery book covers green and I choose Dark blue because it reminds me of fog, shadows and all things mysterious. I also made Agatha Christie's signature red because it can relate to the story as there is romance and death.
I then uploaded my cover to the guardian website.
It then got published to the guardian page.
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