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A "Design for Living" scrapbook from a 1946 promotion from the publishers of Madamoiselle magazine. Cover design and illustrations by Frederick Chance.
Blogged at letterology.blogspot.com/2011/10/mid-century-design-for-l...
A school project, redesign of an architecture&design magazine Kvart.
Number 13 actually was a bad fortune number for magazine, so with great difficulties number 14 came out with a huge delay. Therefor number 14 on the cover page is presented as impossible object. Magazine no longer exists today.
Curator’s introduction, showing at left a detail of one of Ms. Watt’s blanket towers, which range from eight to thirty feet in height. Here you can see the type resting on two baselines: one near the bottom of the page, reserved for the main narrative and one about a third from the top, for captions and other didactic content. Headlines hang below the top baseline to draw the two areas together and trigger the figure/ground relationship between the type area and the pale background tint, which is both an organizational tool and a nod to the stripe proportions on trade blankets.
Hypothetical cover designs as part of the REMAKE/REMODEL visual re-imagining exercises at Warren Ellis' forum Whitechapel.
"39GeorgeV" is an urban surrealism manifesto.
It shelters the renovation of an Hausmannian building during year 2007.
It's a life-size photographic work based on the original building, printed on canvas, enhanced with bas-relief.
Read the 39GeorgeV manifesto
My latest book cover design for my friend, Merry Farmer. This one's set in Montana in the late 1800s.
Copyright: Steven Meyer-Rassow — with Joanna L. Arnold and Brian Worley at Studio Blanco. Shot with a single Canon speedlite off-camera right.
Anthropomorphic imagery is well established in western society. Examples can be found in everything from arts and literature to religion and pop culture. The school children’s Valentines of the 1940s and 1950s represented the spirit of anthropomorphism in a visually delightful and simplistic manner. Their appeal stemmed from bold colors, well defined human- like objects and the double entendre, a figure of speech in which a phrase or word may be understood in one of two ways. For example, a Valentine with the image of a canoe offers double meanings for “canoe” (can you), “oar” (or) and the suggestion to “paddle around.” We created realistic mockups of these two-dimensional valentines to showcase these charming and sweet cards for the author, Robert Rightmire.
A "Design for Living" scrapbook from a 1946 promotion from the publishers of Madamoiselle magazine. Cover design and illustrations by Frederick Chance.
Blogged at letterology.blogspot.com/2011/10/mid-century-design-for-l...
We were contacted by our client, Donna Scoates Nixon of Voices of Value to design a series of books compiling quotes relating to specific topics. The first in this 7 x 7 book series is a call to “Action”.
Finished copies of Will Steacy's collection of essays, "The Photographs Not Taken" bound with a three hole pamphlet stitch using kitchen twine.
Big ups go to photographer, Scott A. Miller for his wonderful photographs of the final shuttle launch.
"39GeorgeV" is an urban surrealism manifesto.
It shelters the renovation of an Hausmannian building during year 2007.
It's a life-size photographic work based on the original building, printed on canvas, enhanced with bas-relief.
Read the 39GeorgeV manifesto
"© All Rights Reserved"
Available for use.
Covers are for single use only. Once you have chosen your design it will be unique to your book. No repeat use.
I will also set the text for your title and name.
For more cover designs & information see album HERE
Stock images with thanks to;
Pixabay (Public Domain)
The latest cover design I completed for Beacon Hill Press came in last week. Matte laminate hardback aimed at business men who travel. {So they don't cheat ! }
© Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 2009
Doesn't everyone enjoy design book covers for their fictional book featuring none other than hard drinking human/goat hybrid biker Glen Fandango? Here's the only excerpt I've actually written from 'The Wild One':
In the silence that blossomed you could have heard a pin drop. No one knew quite what to say. It wasn't so much that they couldn't comprehend the words more that they were agog at the person who was presenting them. Glen Fandango stood a shade over 7ft tall (including his horns) and was dressed in the leathers of a now defunct biker gang. He glanced round the puzzled faces and repeated his question 'Can I get a beer please?' The lady behind the bar was the first to gather her wits and she pivoted towards the beer tap with a glass in her hand without either taking her eyes off him or saying a word.
As he waited for the beer he casually surveyed the other people in the bar before adding 'I'm also looking for a bit of information. Does anybody here know an Alice Gerhardt?' With that pronouncement the temperature in the room dropped a further few degrees as it would seem he had struck a nerve. Perfect, that was just what he wanted. Glen smiled. Not that you'd know it though as his goat face was largely inscrutable to the average person. It would seem that he was in the right place after all.
Glen had not had an easy life but it's not all been his fault. Ever since his 'father' rescued him from a government lab in North Korea and escaped across the border to the south with the infant in his arms people have been pointing and whispering. A small measure of fame followed his arrival in Seoul and within a few years they had been invited to the USA to start a new life.
As a young kid, whilst his father continued his work in genetics for the US Department of Defense, he was relentlessly teased until his tormentors learned the hard way that the horns on his head weren't just for decoration. This, in turn, led to an early involvement with the police. It's one of the few relationships he's managed to successfully maintain over the years. By the time his father died he was an angry young man with a chip on his shoulder and the face of a goat. The next decade was an epic spiral of booze, bikes and bad decisions. It was only after hitting rock bottom that he managed to come to terms with himself and emerge, not entirely unscathed, on the other side. Nowadays he's (more or less) working on the side of the angels and if you can find him and convince him your case is worthy he is, without doubt, the best manhunter on the planet...
And that's what I've got. Along with my carefully designed biker patch for his now defunct biker gang and his likeness sprayed on the side of an abandoned van. You can make the rest up yourself...
Cheers
id-iom
A lovely early book cover designed by Edward Gorey.
"Oscar Wilde: His Life and Wit."
by Hesketh Pearson
Harper 1946
A 1956 publicity brochure issued by Walpamur Co Ltd, a well known manufacturer and brand of decorating materials and advertising their stand at that years Ideal Home Exhibition along with a suggested palette of colours for rooms around the home using their paint ranges and shades. Interestingly the main 'Walpamur' range of oil based paint was still supplied as paste to be thinned with Walpamur Petrifying Liquid; this was at a time when, with growing "DIY" decorating, increasingly paint sales and technology was geared to 'ready mixed' product that simply required stirring. Equally Muromatte was produced requiring 'adjustment' with linseed oil or thinning with white spirit.
The company has its origins in the 1899 formation of The Wall Paper Manufacturers Ltd who had by c.1905 started to manufacture paints at its Darwen base originally under the name of Hollins Distemper. By 1915 Walpamur Ltd was incorporated in its own right within the WPM concern.
The various brands of paint produced, such as Duradio, Muromatte and Walpamur, were by the mid-1960s increasingly branded as Crown Paints to match the brand name for many of WPM's wall coverings. After many changes of company structure and ownership Crown Paints are still based in Darwen alhtough now form part of a larger international company.
The cover artwork uses this rather fine colour sketch of the Tower of London from across the River Thames; the idea being that the cold, grey stone of yore warmed only by tapestries is contrasted with today's colourful, warm and inviting home - so long as you use Walpamur paints! I really should know the artist for this - it does not appear to be credited here.
The typ journal was published in Prague and aimed at the printing industry in Czechoslovakia in the first half of the last century.
For more information visit letterology.blogspot.com/2011/09/1948-czech-type-journal....
"© All Rights Reserved"
Available for use.
Covers are for single use only. Once you have chosen your design it will be unique to your book. No repeat use.
I will also set the text for your title and name.
For more cover designs & information see album HERE
Stock images with thanks to;
Embers -Jumbodeal.com
Landscape, clouds & ships - Pixabay (Public Domain)
"39GeorgeV" is an urban surrealism manifesto.
It shelters the renovation of an Hausmannian building during year 2007.
It's a life-size photographic work based on the original building, printed on canvas, enhanced with bas-relief.
Read the 39GeorgeV manifesto
1945; Say Yes to Murder by W.T. Ballard. unknown Artist.
If you say Yes to the first generation of coverdesigns these American Penguin are definity HOT!
Second set of re-designs for book cover project. This set is typographically based.
Print Design II
Spring 2010
Business plan design for Iron Lion (also designed the logo for these guys). More shots coming on this.
Finally!
Time for another cover reveal... this is the second book in the 'Duskwalker' series by Jay Posey, and sequel to 'Three', which I also shot/designed the cover for earlier this year.
Massive thanks goes to all who were involved and helped in making this happen: Tom So (model/actor) for being fantastic to work with on getting this shot! If you think he looks familiar... Tom So is a professional extras actor and has appeared in James Bonds' 'Casino Royale' amongst a whole raft of accolades!
Stewart Larking for art direction and typography, as well as Sabel Studio-Blanco for the fantastic new studio this was shot in and assisting on the day.
For more info, head on over to the cover reveal page on Angry Robot's website:
angryrobotbooks.com/2013/12/cover-reveal-morningside-fall/ — at Studio Blanco.
The original French edition of “In Search of the Castaways” was published by Hetzel in 1867-1868 as “Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant” (The Children of Captain Grant). It included 170 engravings by Edouard Riou which are also present in this 1873 English-language edition.
The book tells the story of the quest for Captain Grant of the “Britannia.” After finding a bottle the captain had cast into the ocean after the “Britannia” is shipwrecked, Lord and Lady Glenarvan of Scotland contact Mary and Robert, the young daughter and son of Captain Grant, through an announcement in a newspaper. The government refuses to launch a rescue expedition, but Lord and Lady Glenarvan, moved by the children's condition, decide to do it themselves. The main difficulty is that the coordinates of the wreckage are mostly erased, and only the latitude (37 degrees) is known; thus, the expedition would have to circumnavigate the 37th parallel south. The bottle was retrieved from a shark's stomach, so it is impossible to trace its origin by the currents. Remaining clues consist of a few words in three languages. They are re-interpreted several times throughout the novel to make various destinations seem likely.
Lord Glenarvan makes it his quest to find Grant; together with his wife, Grant's children and the crew of his yacht, the Duncan, they set off for South America. An unexpected passenger in the form of French geographer Jacques Paganel (he missed his steamer to India by accidentally boarding on the Duncan) joins the search. They explore Patagonia, Tristan da Cunha Island, Amsterdam Island, and Australia (a pretext to describe the flora, fauna, and geography of numerous places to the targeted audience). They face many challenges on their journey– avalanche, hurricane, flood, tornado, erupting volcano, wolves, head-hunters, cannibals, you name it. It’s one of Verne’s most exciting adventure stories.