You already locked three choices on your novel cover: colour palette, title treatment and image approach. That is your design system.
Today you carry palette and title treatment onto two more covers: a short story and a graphic novel. You change only what each format demands on the image (and title weight on the graphic novel). By the end you have produced two new front-cover pieces of visual communication, and the three-cover pack is ready for M1 KA2 once the novel cover sits with them.
Missing last lesson's work? Write your three design-system lines now from whatever novel cover you have (palette, title treatment, image approach), and name your short story and graphic novel titles. That is enough to make today's two covers. KA2 waits until your novel cover is in the same folder.
You are not starting again. Keep palette and title treatment. Change only the format demand on the image (and title weight on the graphic novel). Your image approach stays as a habit; what the picture shows is what the format rewrites.
| Term | What it means for you | Workshop example |
|---|---|---|
| Format demand: the one thing this kind of cover needs that the others do not. | Change only that one thing on each new cover. | Short story needs a motif, not a full scene; graphic novel needs one iconic figure and a heavier title |
| Motif: one object that stands for the whole story, not one scene. | Use this for the short story cover. | A single worn key, a ticket stub, or one shoe |
| Iconic image: one clear figure readable from across a corridor. | Use this for the graphic novel cover, with heavier title lettering. | One full-bleed character silhouette facing the reader |
| Set consistency: three covers that clearly belong together. | Same palette and title treatment on all three; the image changes only for the format demand. | Same teal and same sans-serif title treatment on novel, short story and graphic novel |
Worked walkthrough. Novel cover: deep teal, clean sans-serif title, one road vanishing into fog. Short story cover: keep teal and the sans-serif title; swap the road for a single brass key as a motif that stands for the whole story. Graphic novel cover: keep teal; make the title heavier and bolder; put one character silhouette front and centre as the iconic image.
When both covers are done, press Enter Your Work below and fill in the record. Save it and both covers in your Communication Portfolio beside your novel cover: together they make up your Key Assignment on front covers.
Your novel cover from last lesson is in your Portfolio folder (or use a phone photo, or printed mock-ups on the desk). When you have named the one change, press Enter Your Work below and write it there so it is kept.
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