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What is going on with those covers?! If I didn't see the author or title I would think that was a new edition of an evangelical bible.
Lobstergirl wrote: "What is going on with those covers?! If I didn't see the author or title I would think that was a new edition of an evangelical bible."
I'm reading an e-book edition, so I didn't really look at the cover until you pointed it out. And since most covers these days don't appeal to me (I'm clearly not the market), I tend not to pay much attention to them even in bookstores. Then again, back in the day when I designed book covers myself, the sales manager for my distributor hated them. Check this one out, for example.
Oh, that's very good. Simple design and restricted color palette is usually best. The whimsy of the falling letters works well because everything else is so simple.
Yes, I borrowed my color palette and play with letters (although not the specifics) from the Central and East European Constructivist graphic designers.
Robert wrote: "Yes, I borrowed my color palette and play with letters (although not the specifics) from the Central and East European Constructivist graphic designers."
I should add that in those days it was expensive to print short runs of four-color covers, not to mention six-color covers, due to the cost of color separations, so for a small press it was important to do as much as you could with two colors (plus white, of course, which was a drop out from one of the two colors).
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What is going on with those covers?! If I didn't see the author or title I would think that was a new edition of an evangelical bible.
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Lobstergirl wrote: "What is going on with those covers?! If I didn't see the author or title I would think that was a new edition of an evangelical bible."I'm reading an e-book edition, so I didn't really look at the cover until you pointed it out. And since most covers these days don't appeal to me (I'm clearly not the market), I tend not to pay much attention to them even in bookstores. Then again, back in the day when I designed book covers myself, the sales manager for my distributor hated them. Check this one out, for example.
Oh, that's very good. Simple design and restricted color palette is usually best. The whimsy of the falling letters works well because everything else is so simple.
Yes, I borrowed my color palette and play with letters (although not the specifics) from the Central and East European Constructivist graphic designers.
Robert wrote: "Yes, I borrowed my color palette and play with letters (although not the specifics) from the Central and East European Constructivist graphic designers."I should add that in those days it was expensive to print short runs of four-color covers, not to mention six-color covers, due to the cost of color separations, so for a small press it was important to do as much as you could with two colors (plus white, of course, which was a drop out from one of the two colors).
