For this we had to make a far east book cover in the style of Chinese, Japanese or Indian. I immediately chose Japanese because I felt that I could come up with the most ideas for that one. I created a moodboard full of Japanese book covers and got inspiration from a couple of them for the layout. I already decided that the Rising Sun flag would be great and I thought it would be good to translate 'Beautifully Unhinged' and 'Annelies Cornelius' into Japanese characters. Unfortunately Beautifully Unhinged couldn't be translated but instead it would be changed to 'Beautiful Insanity' which is close but probably not good enough so I kept it English and chose an amazing Japanese style font. 'Cornelius' could be translated though so I included that on the cover. The layout that I got inspired from also had a photo of someone and a few shapes in different colours, however I saw another book cover that had a plant on so I preferred to use that rather than the shapes but I decided to include the photo. The photo I used was supposed to be red & black but for some reason Photoshop wouldn't let it be black, which is irritating. The reason why I decided on these colours is to keep with the Japanese flag colour scheme.
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