Penguin Book Cover
Penguin Books’ have a distinct, yet varying theme from the illustration, to the type and layout. I focus on Bonnie and Clyde for this “Couple’s Cover”. The destructive couple, creating misery in the path of their love with horrific and dangerous emotions. I imagine a color palette of blood red, black, with shivers of silver to represent shells of a bullet. Truly coining the term “Partner in Crime” for relationships all over the world for generations to come. How it all started was a highschool girl named Bonnie, met a boy named Roy Thorton, with whom she dropped out and married in 1926 at 16 years old. Thornton then got entangled with the law before Bonnie met Clyde, becoming imprisoned for the following years after they married, which was the last time they saw each other. Clyde Barrow, supported by his older brother, would participate in criminal activities in the late 1920s including carjacking, safe cracking, and robbing small stores. Eventually crossing paths Bonnie and Clyde become inseparable against the world and law.
Typeface: Gill Sans
“Uncovering the process”
Medium: Clay, Acrylic, Toothpicks
Adjusted in Photoshop, and finalized in Illustrator
Photo/Texture Exploration:
Following the theme of a violent couple I use this reference, displaying the calmness after chaos. From the gritty and jagged texture of the asphalt to the copper shells, coalescing harmoniously to give the viewer a sense that you could feel the heat from the concrete, and smell the gunpowder.
Typeface: Gill Sans
“All I can say is, they did right by me...And I'm bringing me and a mess of flowers to their funeral”
— a farmer
