Space Knight 7
Merch Design - Graphic Design
Overview
When Space Knight 7 was announced after 2+ years without a new book in the series it was a special occasion for fans. To expand on the book's release our team decided to create a special shirt design to go alongside it.
I was in charge of the design for the shirt and based the design off of the book's cover and central character. I created two color variations that could be sold on the website and AB tested.
Approach
After years of loving sci-fi and seeing other amazing designs in this genre, I finally had a chance to try something in the style. I wanted to create a modern brutalist sci-fi design, focusing on the new primary character shown on the book’s cover, and I wanted it to reflect the futuristic yet D&D style fantasy of the novel.
The new star character for the book was a death knight or a sort of space necromancer and I wanted to highlight that. I utilized pieces of the book’s cover art as a basis, pulling out the character as well as some background elements that I knew would look great in the design. Skulls, crunchy digital textures and futuristic designs highlight the sci-fi fantasy genre of the book and the character nicely, and I re-enforced it with the character’s name in a bold contrasting blackletter font. Then I simplified the graphics into a 4 color design to give it a screen printed look and grunged up the design to make it look worn and retro.
Once the design was completed I designed a number of exciting color combinations and we settled on 2 that played off the colors of the cover art.
Year
2024
Client
MSE Publishing
Responsibilities
Merch Design and Graphic Design
Creative Director
Jason Faraci
