Book cover decision

I began this brief by exploring the listed notable thinkers' book cover designs and the ideas and messages surrounding these publications.

I choose names off the list that I hadn't previously heard of and names which I didn't recognise to discover if their writings were of ideas that resonated with my own thoughts on these subjects. 

Looking at names such as Chomsky and Rousseau I discovered that these books really didn't appeal to what I found interesting, and many of the books from previous centuries were ones which I wanted to avoid, and I was looking to find a more contemporary book which I could design for.

Moving on from the second hand research, I visited the library in an attempt to find a book of my own accord rather than settling for one from the list. 

I began to stumble across Erich Fromm's series of books, being described as a person who approached a contemporary Marxist style and being part of the Frankfurt School of critical theory.

He had written a trilogy of books of which didn't share a similar design theme.

I then found Fromm's 'The Sane Society' A book which had messages which appealed to me much more than 'Marx's concept of man', A book which had been shunned by many due to it's "critique of contemporary capitalism"and gained wider disapproval by many.

The protestive messages that this book contained were something which excited me and something that I could base a design around. 

I will move on to exploring the symbolic messages behind this book cover design, analysing and scrutinising the messages this book conveys and also looking into the current cover design and if there are messages held in that.