Drawings, Photographs, Papers, and Notes From Nowhere
OK, new cover. The email vote was strongly in favor of draft three from the previous entry (here). However, there’s the concern that it won’t work because of the traffic cone book I already did. So, next try. The type falls apart in this low res version, but no problem in print. This one also fits the literal meaning of the book title, or at least it aims to do so. Thanks!
I’m using this Friday morning to put together cover drafts for the upcoming book. These are wrap-around, one-piece versions of the cover; the book spine will go right through the middle. The first version (above) is a local favorite, but I wonder whether it is a little too upbeat and “un-urban” to really stand for the whole book (you can look at an advanced edit via this link; the final book has some more recent images in it, and I’ve also dropped a few, but the overall impression has not changed that much).
The second cover option signifies well what I do. I like it. However, the “Manhattan Project” is not really the main part of the book, so this may not be the best choice for what is basically a visual autobiography of the past ten years of my life. I’m undecided, but overall this may well be it. Option two suffers most from being a low res web copy; the printed cover is 17 inches wide (the book is 8.5 by 8.5 inches), and at that size there’d be an abundance of detail.
The third one has the visual impact going for it, and the fact that traffic cones loom large in my work… On the other hand, I just did a traffic cone book. So I wonder whether there is room for another traffic cone cover?
Shoot me an email if you have an opinion on this, or comment below (email address will not appear, and will never be shared). In any case – thanks for looking!
(Update: New cover here.)
I’m still not done with editing the Dolomite-images from past January. These two will go on the walls of a little “extra” home-office-room in my new apartment (my main work space will remain image-less as far as the walls are concerned). I somehow think it is ridiculous to put your images on your own walls – like an author reading her novel to herself aloud every night before going to sleep. But these two fit the room perfectly, and I want a distinctly different feel for the two rooms where I work. The prints will help achieve that.
Finding it increasingly inconceivable to leave the house for shopping, I consider to order frames, etc., from American Frame, here. If I do this, I’ll let you know how it goes.