Exericse: Book Cover design - Final designs

This is the final design for the book cover for War of the worlds. I tried to keep it quite simplistic. I include to planets at either corner of the cover, one dark, evil looking planet and the other, bright, the good guys, our planet earth. I used cursive writing for the book title and the authors name as this is a classic style of writing, and looks quite sophisticated. I added the text ' sci fi collection' to the spine so readers are aware the book is part of a collection
I placed the title in a white box, with a black band at the top and bottom, not too dissimilar from those I'd seen of already existing penguin books. I placed this in the center of the cover as i want this to be the center of the viewers attention and i also feel it helps break up the cover design, making quite a plain picture look more visually pleasing and interesting. The way the text is displayed on this book will feature on all three of my cover designs.

The next book i created a cover for was The first men in the moon again quite a simplistic design. I wanted all my covers to look quite similar so it would be visually obvious they were part of a set. They all feature planets in a dark blue, starry sky. All with the same style and positioning of text.
I used a big dark, cold looking moon of my cover design. It is quite cold and lonely looking, representing the fact that nobody/ nothing lives or is present on this planet. Before the two characters in the book, nobody had been there, they were the first men in the moon. i did the moon quite big so it was slightly overwhelming, giving a representation of the sheer size of the moon, and vast space/ universe we live in.

The final book in my collection is A modern utopia. Again with a similar design to the others to represent it being part of the sci-fi alien based collection i have created. This cover features a mysterious planet, a utopia, on a cushion. I have used a red cushion with gold trim, similar to royal cushion that carry jewels or other precious objects. This connotes that whatever is on this planet is precious, beautiful, highly valued, rich. A utopia.