High Fidelity Book Jacket Design

I recently decided that for my next self initiated Illustration project I wanted to mock up a selection of book Jackets for some of my favourite books, High Fidelity by Nick Hornby is one of these!

There is something very cool about the idea of owning a record store and Hornby really emphasises this in High Fidelity! I've always been a little fascinated with Old stores with deep history, and Record store's fall into this category. I decided to experiment with the idea of the front exterior of 'Championship Vinyl' (Rob's record store in the book) and see how I could make it work as the front cover.

Playing around with imagery and sketches I have collected, I created the exterior to the shop, giving it the kind of run down feel that all good record stores are attributed with. In the front window, hang various records from Rob's Top 5's. (This is also incorporated onto the outdoor sign infront of the store!) Above the storefront, held up by scaffolding is an over sized vinyl, with the books title in its centre.
I decided that the jacket should be a wrap around, to give a little more information about the stores location within Islington, London. I created a wooden fence, with a local estate behind it, also on the fence sits an advertising hoarding, which features the slogan from the book "Championship Vinyl: Everything for the serious Record Collector!"

I'm happy with how the jacket turned out, and look forward to hopefully posting some more designs for some of my other favourite books up here soon!