I aimed to create a design book cover which portayed myself and my work in a non-literal sense, which others could recognise as mine without reding a name or seeing an actual picture of me or my work. I think the outcome has a strong sense of nostalgia and history, making you feel like you have stepped in a time machine and seen fragments of the past.
I used a record cover for the main cover, which i chose after wading through my collection of LP's.
I chose the Strauss cover for it's images of old fashioned couples dancing in their ornate gowns, and in trying to give clues as to the materials and silhouetted imagery i like to use in my jewellery, made one of the men's silhouetted in a piece of vinyl record.
I trimmed the top and bottom borders with a thin lace, to further create the feeling of nostalgia and to add it's unique texture.
I stitched the edge of the right hand side to practically bind it and because i associate sewing with the old image of a good woman, and of the hand-made products which are so often machine made in today's world.
The back cover is covered with the inner sleeve of the same Strauss LP, which advertises iconic singers and stories of the time. In the above image you can see examples like Nat King Cole and Winnie the Pooh, amongst others, which hold personal sentiment and nostagia from my childhood.
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