I am overall very happy with this final outcome. I think the cover design is impactful and eye-catching. Each element - the front, the spine and back - are being able to stand on their own but the cover also works as one cohesive piece. I feel that the choices I made in typography are appropriate, and all the copy has managed fit around the design, still maintaining its legibility.
I like the focus on composition across the design in the positioning of the snakes - how they balance across the front and back cover, and frame the book title. I think it was a good choice to take the design from being entirely digital into lino-print to give it a softer, more handmade aesthetic.
The concept of the cover was to symbolise the hope of racial discrimination disappearing within the next generation, through a visual metaphor of snakes achieving some form of rebirth by shedding their skins. The skins being shed within the design also contain the 'nought' and 'cross' symbols, iconic to previous covers of the book, and also derogatory racial terms referring to blacks and whites within Blackman's dystopian setting. Im glad I found a way of incorporating the two symbols in a more non-conventional and conceptual way. The only worry I have about the design is the fact that this concept is perhaps too ambiguous, and therefore will be considered not necessarily in keeping with the plot of the book.
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