Final Project: Courtney Johansson

For my final project, I decided to create a minimalist book cover for Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid. I chose a sort of monochromatic color scheme with blues and teals. I chose the background color and added texture over it to make it look more like water. The texture is heaviest at the bottom and lighter at the top to look like Ariel is swimming up toward the surface. I applied the rule of thirds for the tail and I chose a serif font because it matched the feel of the entire cover and helped bring it together. I also thought it looked really nice with the texture of the background. The contrast of sizes between "the", "little", and "mermaid" create triangulation in order to draw the eye upward toward the tail. I wanted to create something that was simple, yet compelling. The principles we have learned in the class helped me to make edits necessary to make the book cover look its best. 

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Hailey Stevens, Lexi Erickson, Jenna Randle, Ryan Cummings, Morgan Linford