• £240

• 29 designs

• 7 designers

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Graphic Design Brief

Spineless Classics are prints of entire book texts on posters. We've spent the last few years building up a reputation for high quality, sensitively crafted prints and now we've got some really exciting titles to work with we want your ideas.

Examples on our site www.spinelessclassics.com

We take the complete book, with all the paragraphs, and lay it out in columns of 4pt text. To make it fit the sheet fully, we wrap it around (or inside) a striking silhouette image. It is this silhouette you will be designing.

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You will not be working with the text to produce a finished product, but submitting a path outline which we will use to create the actual piece.
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While our core range is based around classic black and white, we are open to the use of colour. However, Less is definitely more and we want the book to speak for itself rather than show off your most intricate design abilities. The idea is to communicate a strong concept with as simple a design as possible.

Your design should show a good familiarity with the book itself rather than merely illustrating the title. Ideally, people who have read the book should recognise something which is not obvious to those who have not.

Other than that, the sky is the limit and with distribution across four continents your design has the potential to be on walls across the world.

Target Market(s)

Fans of the book! Your design should be something that evokes the themes of the book - personal destiny, the journey of life, the beauty of the natural chaos of the universe.. you get the idea. Not just a dude looking at a pyramid.

Industry/Entity Type

Building

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Look and feel

Each slider illustrates characteristics of the customer's brand and the style your logo design should communicate.

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Requirements

Must have

• - Ideally, we need a pathed file which can be imported into Adobe Creative Suite. AI files are perfect. Alternatively, you may provide a high-res bitmap which we can trace but it must have clear, sharp edges. A scan of a pencil sketch is just making more work at our end.

Nice to have

• - Because we keep the paragraphs your design cannot be too detailed. Short lines, some dialogue or a chapter heading can make the edges of your shapes appear ragged and will make small details disappear. We're looking for bold and recogniseable shapes rather than patterns or complex compositions.
• Due to the nature of the columns, bear in mind that thin lines (especially diagonal lines) can break up the text and make it hard to read. If you do want to include detail (e.g. a face) then it should be close to vertical and should face towards the right. A face looking down will cause words to be split up too much and a face looking left will lose detail where there are short lines of dialogue.

Should not have

• Goes without saying but please don't plagiarise any existing book covers or marketing material that you've seen elsewhere. This will be approved by the publisher and they have seen everything before so you will get caught out!
• DO NOT SUBMIT ANYTHING WITH TEXT IN THE BACKGROUND. We will do that part. You should submit nice clean shapes that we can work with; let us worry about the columns etc.

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Files

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