Moodboards

Similar to working like Fashion designers, creating mood boards will help create a visual overview of space, the universe, the subjects discussed in the book and past cover designs. This will open up potential visual ideas for the books cover and typographic compositions.

Scientific view

Artistic view

Views of Space

Past covers

Visual ideas on book cover's composition through these mood boards

1. To create a design that illustrates a scientific topic discussed in the book. For example, a vertical gradient from blue to red demonstrating Entropy through typography.

2. A typographic visualisation of an image of space that uses a similar colour scheme. It does not cover the whole of the book but just a small framed area. This gives the impression that the composition is a snapshot of space, much like the images from the Hubble telescope. The white space around the frame focuses the composition on the page as opposed to having it be full bleed.

3. To reinterpret the scientific phenomenons through colour and abstract forms. This would help open up the books audience to those who are not scientifically inclined as it makes the book's content look less intimidating to understand. 

4. To create bespoke letterforms that illustrate the topics discussed in the book to spell out Stephen Hawking's name. 

5. To design a cover that works with small set type to break away from the typical large headline texts that dominate book covers of today to grab readers attention as well as to represent the one of the smallest things in the universe, the atom. 

6. Using the scientific phenomenon in the books title, this idea illustrates a black hole on the cover to create an optical illusion, making it seem like the page is curving inwards.