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flying books
wonderful ipad app that celebrates the real physical book and paradoxically puts the ipad to good use as an interactive alternative to the real book, well worth a look the app is too, i just had a play with it… (thanks to my wife for the tip x)
is that a gun in your pocket?
new work from mister parra and mister bean, if you want you can even put your own head in the cut-out too, great fun… that tune might need a bit of work though… (produced by my dear belgian friends from ‘monodot’, in fact now i think about it that looks like their own office…)
water on glass
a cover design i made for a novel arrived back from the printers this week, not really new work but an update to an older piece of work, the novel is a dutch translation of an american novel set in the 1930’s during the depression in kentucky USA
a fairly traditional cover i know, but that was the publishers brief… the cover image is an archive stock image which i printed out, placed under a sheet of glass, sprayed with water drops and re-shot to create the desired layered effect an distorted type, i added some detailing to the water drops using a spot UV varnish on the matte laminate which worked really well, i initially tried to make some type using pices of broken glass (the title of the novel) but this was too obvious i felt… a large part of the novel takes place during rainstorms so the reference seemed more apt and somewhat less direct
this new paperback edition was very low budget so the spot varnish has now gone, the colour shift to purple (photoshop + a bit of guess work) worked suprisingly well however…