"Take one."
Monday, March 28, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
This one went though quite a few rounds of overthinking on my part and even one wild goose-chase involving a call to the Toronto Police Mounted Unit, searching for horse blinders that might fit on a human head (long story). I think the final cover here gets right to the heart of the matter quite simply and efficiently.
From the pub: 9/11 was a death blow to the older consensual view of reality, and as a result, North Americans no longer inhabit one cognitive universe. What this means for the future of politics, and for our society at large, is at the heart of Among the Truthers.
A couple of early comps below.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Tony Burgess' books are usually a little bonkers. This forthcoming title is no exception. Idaho Winter is either equal parts Young Adult genre fiction masquerading as meta-fiction or vice versa. I'm still not sure.
From the publisher, ECW Press:
...Idaho becomes enraged upon learning that his suffering has been cruelly designed by a clumsy writer who confesses that he made his book meaner than all the others so it would stand out. Idaho locks the author in a closet and runs off, armed with the knowledge that the entire world is invented and that he has the power now to imagine it differently.
The cover was partly inspired by the old two-colour Hardy Boys serials (collectively ghostwritten yet attributed to one fictitious Franklin W. Dixon), partly inspired by my old late 1960s Boy Scouts Handbook in which you are taught how to survive just about anything except the hackneyed whims of 'the author'.
From the publisher, ECW Press:
...Idaho becomes enraged upon learning that his suffering has been cruelly designed by a clumsy writer who confesses that he made his book meaner than all the others so it would stand out. Idaho locks the author in a closet and runs off, armed with the knowledge that the entire world is invented and that he has the power now to imagine it differently.
The cover was partly inspired by the old two-colour Hardy Boys serials (collectively ghostwritten yet attributed to one fictitious Franklin W. Dixon), partly inspired by my old late 1960s Boy Scouts Handbook in which you are taught how to survive just about anything except the hackneyed whims of 'the author'.
Friday, March 4, 2011
Herewith a series of book cover designs for Joyland, a short-fiction e-book publisher.
Chris Eaton asked that I use the pugilist image supplied by illustrator Julian Forrest. (I cropped the image to hide the fighter's identity, and gave it a postage stamp edge, providing a couple of Pynchon in-jokes) I really liked the slight impasto quality of the illustration and it ended up informing the rest of the series in that I made sure that the hand of the creator – the rough edges - remained visible, or at least the appearance of rough edges remained visible.
This all fit nicely with Joyland's already-established old paper, faux-analogue look.
You can read me ramble on at greater length about the inspiration behind this series here with Joyland author, e-book advocate and one-time advertising reporter, Jim Hanas.
Chris Eaton asked that I use the pugilist image supplied by illustrator Julian Forrest. (I cropped the image to hide the fighter's identity, and gave it a postage stamp edge, providing a couple of Pynchon in-jokes) I really liked the slight impasto quality of the illustration and it ended up informing the rest of the series in that I made sure that the hand of the creator – the rough edges - remained visible, or at least the appearance of rough edges remained visible.
This all fit nicely with Joyland's already-established old paper, faux-analogue look.
You can read me ramble on at greater length about the inspiration behind this series here with Joyland author, e-book advocate and one-time advertising reporter, Jim Hanas.
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