Alexandra Ciocanel and Caroline White-...,
I thought of two books, Data Flow 1 and Data Flow 2 as inspiration for covers that work with data. Also check out the website for Stefanie Posavec and also David McCandeless. Also, have a look at the data artwork at ZKM in Karlsruhe.
http://www.stefanieposavec.com/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Data-Flow-Visualizing-Information-Graphic/dp/3899552784
Your first two images reminded me of how Donna Haraway used to use for her bookcovers the same artist. Take a look at the Cyborg Manifesto or OncoMouse bookcovers for the indigenous artist, Lynn Randolph.
Your second image reminded me of the illustrator Andrew Park. You may find these inspiring? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Park_(animator)
Sofie, having a single object on a bookcover can make a striking appearance. Have a look at the different versions of the SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas. In one of the last editions they use a single image in an iconographic way.
Hannah, your image of the data thugger and Angela your images of people too, made me think of how you could portray the emotion of your research as an atmosphere, in a more abstract way. I was thinking about the bookcover on affect called the Hundreds by Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart.
The cover is made by an artist who happens to be a pupeteer and animator, it's a still from an installation, Rather than depict the number "hundreds" the cover captures a mood or an atmosphere. See Here: https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Hundreds.html?id=j22DDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
Images can be used as bookcovers if cropped into. The cover by Jackie Orr, the Panic Diaries came to mind.
Hi Mike, the image really does work for a book cover! There would be so many options to colour pic out of the image for the text. What colour would you imagine the text to be if picked from your cover?
If you had to go with a press that gives you pre-designed book covers like the Pivot range, what colours and patterns would you go for, what 3-4 keywords would help you to make that decision? Here are some already published: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/campaigns/palgrave-pivot
Hi Caroline, you have one image that mentions data a lot.
If you were to make one of these a book cover say for MIT Press, in order which one would you choose? What 2-3 lines of text would you give the designer to interpret the image into the main parts of a bookcover, could you start to collect images that might begin a moodboard for inspiration?
If you had to go with a press that gives you pre-designed book covers like the Pivot range, what colours and patterns would you go for and why? What 3-4 keywords would help you to make that decision? Here are some already published: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/campaigns/palgrave-pivot
Hi Alexandra, three very different images that would inspire a book cover. They are images I could imagine inside a book, but not yet the bookcover. So, What 2-3 lines of text would you give the designer to interpret the images as inspiration to design? This often happens for presses that enable you to choose your own covers, see many of the covers for Duke University Press or MIT Press, or Mattering Press.
If you had to go with a press that gives you pre-designed book covers like the Pivot range, what colours and patterns would you go for, what 3-4 keywords would help you to make that decision? Here are some already published: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/campaigns/palgrave-pivot
Hi Linda, all your images could be used as bookcovers. If you were to make one of these a book cover say for MIT Press, in order which one would you choose? What 2-3 lines of text would you give the designer to interpret the image into the main parts of a bookcover, i.e. which image, with what style of typography (handwritten - look at the designs of Stefan Sagmeister, helvetica or something else) what colour would the text be in complement or in contrast to the image?
If you had to go with a press that gives you pre-designed book covers like the Pivot range, what colours and patterns would you go for, what 3-4 keywords would help you to make that decision? Here are some already published: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/campaigns/palgrave-pivot