ACO

Hey whoops I forgot to post this SO here's my layout for A Clockwork Orange. You can see it wrapped around the book itself in my previous post.

My project brief:

A Clockwork Orange is an unsettling entanglement between sex and extreme violence, which both fight their way “in and out” of Alex DeLarge, a teenager causing a lot of trouble in Burgess’s dystopian setting.
            The color orange in my cover design is an obvious choice to reference the title, but also creates a bold and violent vibrancy spattering against a pale, innocent blue. The blue becomes overtaken by the orange by the back cover, alluding to Alex succumbing to his over-sexualized violent tendencies. The image on the back of a glass of milk spilling (as well as using the color white in the type elements) is a reference to the Korova Milk Bar introduced early on in the book. It’s a pretty prominent symbol in the book, but for whatever reason, I decided not to use it or any other image on the front cover. I felt whatever image I could create on the front cover might detract from the feel of it, and I would end up relying on clichés that have already been rehashed in other cover designs, or end up referencing the Kubrick film, which was not my intention. The title itself was done by hand and brought into illustrator, to give a chaotic, violent, and uneasy sort of representation of the title, something I think directly references the nature of the narrative itself.