Book Cover Design (Sketches)

For this assignment, I chose the book called "Aesthetic Intelligence" by Pauline Brown. This is the most recent book I have read, and which I got many insights from. There are two variants of the "original" book cover: an American, and a Russian one - which I saw first and bought it. 
unfortunately, I could not find who designed the American version, but for the Russian one, it was Irina Ivanova. 


Here are my sketches for the re-design of the cover:

 

I thought that the cover of such a narrative should give a better understanding of what the author means, as generally, people do not know what "aesthetic intelligence" is. In the book, Pauline Broun describes aesthetics from all the possible perspectives, such as smell, touch, taste, color, material, thickness, etc. Why not make the cover the reflection of some of those aspects? I would like to go beyond simple pictures and text but also work with the materials used - make it fury/glossy/matte - and many even put perfumed pages inside to make sure that the potential customer's first impression would be unique.


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