The cover is an entry way to the concept or story line of a book. Most people pass books on shelves in a blink of an eye so it is the designers responsibility to gain attention in a matter of seconds. A book cover will rarely get someone to buy the book, but a well executed visual that explains it’s content can entice a reader to pick the book up to learn more about the story.

When redesigning the Lord of the Flies book cover I reread the book and watched both versions of the film from 1963 and 1990. The two people that stood out to me was Simon and Piggy. Piggy's death gave me a dark aura surrounding the story and how sometimes we as people can turn into savages and just be very inhuman at times. With this in mind it gave me the idea to recreate the scene when Simon is having an schizophrenia episode and started hallucinating that the pigs head is talking to him. The beast tells him that the beast is inside all the boys. Before Simon is able to tell the others what he just learned he is murdered savagely by the other group of boys after mistaking him as a beast. Recreating this cover and making it dark felt like the right direction for this book cover.

This project was a success and lots of positive feedback from my professors and peers.