Salutations, for my senior project class we were tasked with creating a semester’s long project. I sought to design a book. This would include its internal pages, dust jacket, and hard cover design. When discussing this with my instructor I was told this would not be enough. I would need to add additional assets to my project. Stickers, bookmarks, and two promotional posters.

This book would not have been just some random one I pulled off the shelf. I have been writing it on and off for the past too many years. It’s a fiction book set in a medieval fantasy setting and these are the results of it.

Front Flap

Front hard cover

House Crests and other Iconography

Front Cover of book jacket

Using the same type of paper as my map I made a set of knightly vows that knights would have to take.

The Front of the bookmarks include the character’s name, family crest or other iconography that represents them, as well as a description of who they are.

This is my large scale world map printed on 24 × 18 in canvas matter paper. With a pocket knife I scraped along the edges and even slashed the map itself. I wanted to give it the vibes that it has been through a lot of use.

Since it is a much more durable paper than standard printer paper I was able to stain it with coffee and heat it in the oven.

All rights reserved…/Title Page

This is a poem I wrote set in the world of my story. I once again stained the paper with coffee. However this paper was done on heavy matte paper.

Appendix

A thing to note about the appendix. The symbols used there next to the names of characters are actually a downloadable typeface. Using a program called Calligraphr I was able to make them. They will be downloadable here. Each of these symbols is assigned to a specific character. The characters I personally used in my book were C, G, and U.

In medieval times it was common practice for noble houses to have a symbol to represent their house referred to as a crest or heraldry. As my story is set in a medieval fantasy world it made sense to for my characters hailing from noble houses to also have their own crests.

Not all the crests here are used to represent noble houses. There are some that depict religious symbols, a mercenary company, and even a couple of the main characters who are of common birth.

These 18 designs would ultimately be used to make my stickers and pins as promotional material for my book.

Stickers

A set of six bookmarks. These are the backs.

Spine

Back Cover of book jacket

Spine

Back Flap

Back hard cover