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Book Cover : The adventures of Sherlock-Holmes

I designed this book cover for the project "Recovering The Classics". (recoveringtheclassics.com/8040)

Recovering The Classics is a crowdsourced collection of original covers for 50 of the greatest books in the public domain. All books are available for sale as both digital and softcover editions to support the artists involved. Recovering The Classics is a project of the Creative Action Network, a marketplace for connecting artists with the causes they care about, and DailyLit, a platform for delivering great fiction in short installments.Check out their other campaigns at: thecreativeactionnetwork.com/campaigns

 

Use of typography, negative spaces, minimalism and your imagination. Those were my keys to design the below cover. Black and white used for the absolute way that the detective's mind worked. The big O, the magnify glass and the letters around, the clues he has to look for. Now, here, we are called to look more careful at the clues in his 12 stories (12 letters) that this book contains, and find the man who is behind them, maybe his figure hides in the dark... and ... our magnify glass spotted his pipe... Hmmm... Is this Sherlock Holmes? :-)

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