For this exercise we were asked to chose a book by an author we were familiar with and create two covers for it, one created using illustrations one by using type. I chose the novel ‘The Horse and his boy’ by C.S.Lewis.

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Although there are literally hundreds of book publishing houses I thought I’d research a sample starting from books that I already have in my home.

I’m looking at:

Laurence King, Harper Collins, Chronicle Books, Penguin, Puffin and Big Picture Press.

1. Laurence King

Spines of a collection of Laurence King books

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