To the Lighthouse – Book Cover

A conceptual design for a school project. On this project we needed to choose a book from a list of the 100 must-read classics for which we would design three new book covers; Photo based, Pattern based and Type based. I decided to do Virginia Woolf’s classic To the Lighthouse. 

On the design I wanted to bring the covers to modern day while still honoring the classic. Creating a modern looking golden gradient to represent the light from the lighthouse and selecting a classic serif type binds the two worlds together.