Class Workbook Cover

If you can see past the horrible glare from my disastrous attempt at sealing with packing tape, you'd be looking at the cover of my photography class workbook. The photo that I tried to showcase in the middle left, is supposedly the best picture I've ever taken. As I did not have time to look through every photo I have ever taken ever, it will have to do. 

I enjoy looking at this photograph because your eye bounces around on all the colors and the crumbling organization of the buildings in it. The picture was taken during my family trip to Puerto Rico and will always remind my of the things that I saw there. On the cover of my workbook, I attempted to imitate the deterioration of that part of the city while keeping all the horizontal and vertical lines of the buildings in the photo. Shape was an important element that I considered when brainstorming my design. The buildings in the photo all share the rectangular shape, but are not uniform in placement. Drawing from the colors in my featured photo was important as well. As all the pieces of the cover share in the same elements, it gives a sense of unity, even though they are also different in their own ways.