book cover idea

[pneumonomachia]

I'm not sure this is even interesting to you all since no one responded to my earlier call for help on this issue, but my graphic designer and I came up with an idea for the book cover that I thought I would share. BTW, I posted the same question on the academics_anon group and received more than 30 responses. hmmm

Comments

[vergence]

I've been so out of LJ-- how did you manage to hire a graphic designer who wasn't me?(Lol it's okay I've only ever made one book cover anyway.)

Sounds like a good image but why do illustration when you have the photographs? I think the visual impact would be much stronger if it literally looked like the person was holding the burning manuscript [and a full color photograph can be done in 4 color pantone]. Just cut the burning paper slap it on a non-burning manuscript in a model's hand and photoshop in the title.

Although who reads speeches from a manuscript? You don't want to conflate your book with the subject. What about note cards or even better a (broken or possibly still burning) teleprompter? Just my 2 cents.

[pneumonomachia]

The graphic designer is free. :) He gets a publication out of it, which is needed for tenure, so it's like gold to him anyway.

I'll pass the idea onto him. He does some really good work. He's the graphic design professor at the university.

I'll have to post the image next week for everyone to see.

[vergence]

ping me when it's up. my coverage on lj is spotty at best and I want to see it.