Minimalist Book Cover Concepts

These are some book cover concepts I recently came up with to help build my print portfolio. All the interviews I’ve been to lately say that’s an area I’m severely lacking in. I came up with a few ideas for the covers, and I’m hoping to get to the others soon, but I thought I would start with these. I’ve been wanting to try something in the minimalist style for awhile now anyhow. Also, I think it would be fun to put out a series of classics with covers that gave just a hint of the story within.  The logo for “Alliance Books” was just something I made up. I saw a mural once in Switzerland of something similar. The copy on the back of the books I took from Barnes & Noble’s Classic Book series. There’s more images of the covers below.

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