Thursday 20 October 2016

In Cold Blood

In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and It's Consequences, Truman Capote

Breakdown of the brief:

- A cover design that breaks the boundaries but still celebrates the literary merit and chilling storyline 

- Imaginative concept


- Appropriate design for the book market


- Needs to be effective on its own as well as eye-catching enough to stand out in a bookshop setting


- Needs to be able to work onscreen 


- According to the brief the winning design will need to:
  • 1. have an imaginative concept and original interpretation of the brief
  • 2. be competently executed with strong use of typography
  • 3. appeal to a contemporary readership
  • 4. show a good understanding of the marketplace
  • 5. have a point of difference from the many other book covers it is competing against
- B format, 198mm x 129mm, spine 20mm 


- Penguin branding and other additional elements such as the bar code need to be included


About the Book

- Originally published in four parts in The New Yorker

- Published as a novel in 1965

- Murder of the Clutter family in November 1959

- Holocomb, Kansas 

- Dick Hickock and Perry Smith

- Capote read about the crime in The New York Times after the murders and before the killers were caught. 





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