I watched Chip Kidd's TED talks on book cover design in order to help out with my design for A Clockwork Orange. I took note of his comments on 'words and forms' for his Dietrich and Hepburn book covers around 4:20. Really deceptively simple stuff.
This video and the Clockwork brief has definitely taught me to simplify the work that I make, especially if it's going to go on a book cover. The way I've been trying to make typographic elements work around a pre-made image hasn't been very smart and I'll avoid clinging onto one image so desperately in future.
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