Alternative Book Cover

Take a title of a well-known book and re-design the cover to suggest something entirely different. For example, the book cover for Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (an apocalyptic novel about a father and son facing the end of the world) is reframed as a feel-good book about effective parenting (see image). Original idea found through this design contest on Book Ninja in 2008. Image credit: Ingrid Paulson’s  reimagining of The Road by Cormac McCarthy

This is a 3 star assignment

For this assignment I once again used the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. For the cover I went to Google Images and found this image of someone waiting for food that was probably hungry.  I then used Photoshop Editor to add the title and author’s name.  Now the Hunger Games looks more like it’s about being hungry and having food than being about living in a postapocalyptic world and having children ages 12-18 fight til the death in the annual Hunger Games.  I chose this assignment because it really relates to the phrase “don’t judge a book by its cover”  I know when I go into book store to look for books I kind of judge a book by its cover.  This assignment shows that if you don’t read the back of the book a cover can be really misleading.