After the further research into the Koshin scrolls, I took some of the elements from it to incorporate within the cover to give it a more decorative element and express some of my design skills as well as the artists within. The hand rendered calligraphy within some of them reference the typography composition I had already created so it tied in quite nicely. We examined how every variation of the scroll has a moon and a sun placed in exactly the same at the top and perhaps we could include this on our cover too.
During a crit we were informed to be more playful and experiment with the cover. The typography was really nice but people wanted to see it bigger and more elaborate. They wanted us to be more decorative and go wild on the cover so we began to experiment with this idea. We also got our friend Hollie to collaborate further on the design to help is illustrate the sun and moon sitting on the clouds. We made sure she illustrated the clouds in the style of the typography so that they paired well together.
Once we had an idea of our content we experimented with a bunch of variations in the style of the scrolls.
I really like this last idea of having the monkeys name at the bottom (same position as it is on the scroll) as it revolves around three dimensions of the book referencing the three monkeys, front, back and the spine. Having the type divided across these three spaces gives them their own separate entities resembling three separate monkeys. After this, we placed a sun on the front and the moon on the back resembling the placement of them on the scroll, from left to right on of the document.
We finally sourced three colours from the scrolls, a red green and a blue but we did not like how the spines matched up together due to the colours so this is something we'd have to experiments with further.
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