OUGD503 Brief 1, Responsive - Clockwork Orange (Research)

Clockwork Orange - Blurb

"Penguin Modern Classics". Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn't just like

ultra-violence - he also enjoys rape, drugs and Beethoven's ninth. 

He and his gang of droogs rampage through a dystopian future, 

hunting for terrible thrills. But when Alex finds himself at the mercy 

of the state and subject to the ministrations of Dr Brodsky, and the 

mind-altering treatment of the Ludovico Technique, he discovers 

that fun is no longer the order of the day. The basis for Stanley 

Kubrick's notorious 1971 film, A Clockwork Orange is both a virtuoso 

performance from an electrifying prose stylist and a serious exploration 

of the morality of free will. In his introduction, Blake Morrison situates 

"A Clockwork Orange" within the context of Anthony Burgess' 

Previous Covers

Clockwork orange has been around over fifty years and with this
there has been several covers for the book internationally. The covers
rely heavily on text and image in most of the examples - using
key scenes to illustrate and depict the story line to the reader.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/04/a-clockwork-orange-covers_n_1939815.html

Most of the covers are self explanatory using content from the book,
my personal favourite is The cover design relevant to the mental state
of the main character as used in psychotherapy the image seen is an 
ink blot test this speaks volumes.

Book Covers

The establishment book cover by Penguin uses negative
space to accentuate the illustrations and type this gives little
away from the book making the reader eager to find out what
the book is all about, the small snippets on the design invite
curiosity. 

Lars Mytting Norwegian Wood chopping has purely
used type and iconography to advertise this book,
the design is curiously simple, clean and structured
almost like how wood chopping should be, the cover
tells the audience exactly what the book is about without
misleading.

I decided to further my book research by visiting waterstones
to look at other covers in person for inspiration.

After looking through hundreds of books these show above were 

my favourite purely because of the style, variation and contrast

between them all.  My favourite cover design out of them all would

have to be the Moby DIck this is because of the really simple and

beautiful patterned illustrations - I like the placement of the type on

book entering the title makes the header appear most important

which it is but by having the illustrations surround it the type on 

the book is not lost at sea.

Quite opposite to the Moby Dick design I loved the design of the

contemporary Alice in wonderland book, the illustration showed sides

of the book you would not consider as the book itself once reading again

when I'm older is rather strange, quirky and quite depressing which as

a child you do not see these things, I believe the book is an adaption

and interpretation of how things really are in the book.