Context Research

This direction of research focuses on gaining an understanding of the context that the book will be in and the other books that it will be presented alongside in a book shop environment.

Genre - True Crime

Something that stands out straight away from looking at these covers as a whole is that the colour schemes are similar as well as the use of photography and illustration being used. This is something that I experienced when visiting Waterstones. The covers that stood out the most were those that had qualities that were different to the others that they were presented beside. For example; block colouring, minimalist design as well as the more ambiguous approaches (not being able to tell what the story is about from the cover). Each of the designs have a dark colour factor in the design with a brighter, more stand out colour. 

Genre - Crime

To look into more general research I extended the search to Crime. This is a similar genre area that the book may be in the same context with. Again there are similarities with the books that I found in this section of the bookstore. Above are the covers that stood out as being more individual. Traits that they have are using ambiguous imagery as well as text that stands out but works in conjunction with the design.