Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Worked on this project for several days. I had to get rid of some of the elements because it was REALLY busy. I am proud of it and think it came out well. I have red, white and blue colors for the American flag. There was a lot of elements of the book/movie about the 1960's and 70's cultural movement and challenging authority. On the text I distorted, I added red, White and blue lights to reflect the Vegas lights. The actual Vegas sign is a photo of a magnet I had from a trip to Vegas I went on. I sketched/ traced the police car/ the convertible and Hunter in the drivers seat. The billboard was reflective of their hwy journey and was my idea for the book summary. I purposely made the road converge at the spine of the book. I felt like it could lead the eye to the title and the entire road did not have to be black to insinuate its purpose. The cactus pictures came from a picture I took of the cactus outside the Arts and Humanities building. The sand was a artistic film grain. When printing, the help desk guy told me it was very reflective of Gonzo journalism, which was a type of journalism invented by Hunter S. Thompson. This made me feel like it was very successful, and my intention when creating it. I felt like it was my personal version of my own interpertation and a combination of the previous book covers.

Bridget

Project #3: Book Cover

Project 3 is a book cover. My books is: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The book is about a journalist who goes on a trip to Las Vegas with his attorney to cover the Mint 400 race and some type of federal gun convention. Parts of this story are true. They are chasing the American Dream... They abandon their work for the use of drugs, trashing hotel rooms, hallucinogenic trips from cocaine, mescalin, alcohol, LSD, and pot included animals with human characteristics and gives the viewer confusion about what is reality and fiction. I would like to incorporate the highway and a conglomeration of line drawings in my cover.
The book was written by Hunter S. Thompson and the book illustration was done by Ralph Steadman. Steadman's (the skull and American flag) book cover and another I found are below...We cannot use images from magazines on this one, so it is going to be a real challenge for me to create something original.

Project #2 Greenies ads, collage