You already locked three choices on your novel cover: colour palette, title treatment and image approach. That is your design system.
Today you carry palette and title family onto two more covers: a short story collection and a graphic novel. You change only what each format demands on the image (and title weight on the graphic novel). By the end you have produced two new front-cover pieces of visual communication, and the three-cover pack is ready for M1 KA2 once the novel cover sits with them.
Missing last lesson's work? Write your three design-system lines now from whatever novel cover you have (palette, title treatment, image approach), and name your short story and graphic novel titles. That is enough to make today's two covers. KA2 waits until your novel cover is in the same folder.
You are not starting again. Keep palette and title family. Change only the format demand on the image (and title weight on the graphic novel). Your image approach stays as a habit; what the picture shows is what the format rewrites.
| Term | What it means for you | Workshop example |
|---|---|---|
| Format demand: the one thing this kind of cover needs that the others do not. | Change only that one thing on each new cover. | Short story needs a motif, not a full scene; graphic novel needs one iconic figure and a heavier title |
| Motif: a repeated object that stands for several stories, not one scene. | Use this for the short story cover. | A single worn key, a ticket stub, or one shoe |
| Iconic image: one clear figure readable from across a corridor. | Use this for the graphic novel cover, with heavier title lettering. | One full-bleed character silhouette facing the reader |
| Set consistency: three covers that clearly belong together. | Same palette and title family on all three; the image changes only for the format demand. | Same teal and same sans-serif title family on novel, short story and graphic novel |
Worked walkthrough. Novel cover: deep teal, clean sans-serif title, one road vanishing into fog. Short story cover: keep teal and the sans-serif title; swap the road for a single brass key as a motif that can stand for several stories. Graphic novel cover: keep teal; make the title heavier and bolder; put one character silhouette front and centre as the iconic image.
Design the short story cover and the graphic novel cover on the canvas below. These two front covers are real pieces of visual communication for your Portfolio. Keep your palette and title family from last lesson. Change only what each format demands on the image (and title weight on the graphic novel).
Today's make: finish the short story cover first, then start the graphic novel. If it is unfinished at the bell, finish it for homework or in the first ten minutes of next lesson.
Aim for good enough to file, not polished art. Both covers need title and author, your palette and title family, and one clear format change each. Then fill in the work box below: that pack is your M1 KA2 evidence.
Open your novel cover from last lesson next to the two you just made (Portfolio folder, phone photo, or printed mock-ups on the desk). Put all three side by side: novel, short story, graphic novel. Work down the list. Anything below Strong needs a specific comment. At the end, name the one change that would make the set lock together.
Talk this through with the person beside you, or note it for your journal later:
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