OUGD505: Covered/Research

I've been looking through the book cover archive as a source of inspiration. As Platos, The Republic is quite a philosophy classic with ideas and ideologies presented within the book that are incredibly profound and breath-taking, especially given how long ago the original text was written.  For a classic book it would be interesting to see a contemporary cover design, and I would like to use some illustration. The book  is meant to be an absolutely essential read about justice, society and the self so I think about buying it!

I picked out a few contemporary covers I especially liked. It would be good to use some hand-rendered elements to the cover.