I am currently brainstorming for the cover of our literary folio, and I am really really out unique ideas. I think the oxygen here in the studio is not enough anymore. ideas....grrrr

rodulfo,

So far, it's like you've come in saying, "I need a new TV. What do you recommend?"

So, some background would be helpful.

Thanks.

Go to a library and start searching through covers of similar publications. Assuming you have enough experience as a designer, looking at other good work will soon get the creative juices running.

Or your local bookstore, even the web. But, it may benefit you to get out of the studio and walk around a Barnes&Noble ( or similar ). Don's right, browse through different publications and ideas will start to gel. One thing you do not want to do is copy someone else's work, so just use the other work as starter material.

Or - make sure you have the design brief firmly rooted in your head and then forget about it (if you have the luxury of time). Then you might see something, hear something and voila - a light bulb moment.

It's called the incubation period, many great designers have worked this way.

Best of Luck

pbc

I have the feeling that Rodulfo was looking for some clear art direction, which is why I posted as I did.

Neil

What you guys said is really effective to me. Lots of ideas are coming in now, Thanks. But I still have a problem trying to fit in these ideas to our target readers. Actually, I have this client whose obsession for literature is so intense that he wanted to persuade college
students taking technical courses to read and write poems and other stuffs like those as he does. I think the cover should be a combination of feelings and technology, and how would i represent those...argh!

Sort of like a left-brain / right-brain thing, eh?

That's it, that's all you get from me.

First thing that jumped to my mind was a poet-type sitting at a computer with a quill on the screen.

Thanks a lot to both of you john and Tony, I just thought of a representation of academics instead of technology since the target readers are students. I guess they are absorbed with their studies that is why they have less interest in literature. What do you think? My next problem is how to represent academics, I have used books already but my client said its cliche, and so is the quill...what about scribbles in their notes???