Moodboards

I decided to put some images together from Google in a Photoshop document to get a good idea of the type of things that summed up that era (the 1960s).

On the top left picture I searched '1960s Oklahoma' and compiled some images that accurately relate to the book 'The Outsiders'.

Here you can see typical images of objects that you would expect to see in that era.

I did this arrangement of images initially to get some ideas going and just get some inspiration on what I was going to design my front cover on.

Here in this second moodboard I arranged the images of previous book cover art done for 'The Outsiders' to see what design theme they went for, and throughout I can see that a consistent gang/violence atmosphere has been put across, definitely something to think about when trying to convey meaning to the reader.


I found this second moodboard especially helpful as it helped me get an idea of what main focal point to use that would accurately describe the book.











Image Sources: https://www.google.co.uk/search?site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1521&bih=927&q=the+outsiders+book+cover&oq=the+outsiders+book+cover&gs_l=img.3..0l5.1250.3071.0.3267.24.13.0.7.7.0.149.1239.8j5.13.0....0...1ac.1.32.img..4.20.1259.VHT9K17QYvQ

-https://www.google.co.uk/search?site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1521&bih=927&q=the+outsiders+book+cover&oq=the+outsiders+book+cover&gs_l=img.3..0l5.1250.3071.0.3267.24.13.0.7.7.0.149.1239.8j5.13.0....0...1ac.1.32.img..4.20.1259.VHT9K17QYvQ#q=1960s+oklahoma&tbm=isch

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