Another exercise in book cover design, again just for the fun of it. This time it's an abstract piece for a nonexistent sci-fi book, in the design style of a Hungarian publishing house because besides giving my first ever try to this kind of abstract I also wanted to test my current brand-sensitivity, trying to match somebody else's general style but applying my own take on it.
Yeah, I've neved done anything this abstract before for a book cover.
I wonder what you see into the cover illustration, if anything. Will you tell me?
i think that cover should tell us about a book as much as can, even if it's abstract, because many...many [many many etc. ] people judge book by the cover. for now, this cover gives only[sic!] aesthetic considerations
should i interpret those colourful squares as a disco lights? [cause true men do not dance!]
yeah, you could interpret them as disco lights too, though that take did surprise me - I'd never have expected anything like that. perhaps the reason why I haven't thought of disco lights is that being a 'metalhead' in general I never go to discos. but you could see disco lights into them... and you have. that's the "danger" of abstract pieces, they mean something else for each of us. I wonder how you'd connect the disco-lights with the title (Mars, Our Judge), though.
as for people judging a book by its cover: it's just natural, and that's why good design is crucial for the success of a publication. in my case here however, the process is turned inside out, as there's no actual publication behind the cover, there's been nothing to sell, to match. this is an experiment.
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"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite." - William Blake
Nagyon... NAGYON ütősre sikerült ez a design. Gratulálok!
Picit eszembejuttatja a C64-es korszakot, amikor még minden brutálisan pixeles volt és akkoriban is csináltak hasonló covereket egyes grafikusok, miután egy színesen villogó discoban hülyére táncolták magukat az előző este.
Nagyon tetszik. 10/10
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Ami a c64-es korszakot illeti, lehet, hogy nagyon beletrafáltál az inspirációm forrásába - még nálam is jobban. Miért? Mert nekem nem jutott eszembe ez a dolog, pedig pont a múlt héten szedtem le egy c64-es emulátort, miután egy archív oldalon random (!) ráakadtam egy máshogy megnyithatatlan megademóra, amit még 1991 környékén hoztunk össze egy csapattal. Mit ad isten, én voltam az egyik grafikus, aki mai szemmel télleg brutálisan pixeles ké.peket, logókat gyártott hozzá (mert mást nem lehetett, ugye.) Szóval igen, lehet, hogy tudat alattról az újra megnézett, özönvíz előtti demo nyúlt ki, és vitt rá arra, hogy ezt itt megcsináljam. Neked meg lottóznod kéne, ha eddig nem tetted.
...de eltérő zenei preferenciám miatt diszkókba akkor sem jártam, hülyére meg pláne nem táncoltam magam. Te talán ismersz olyan, volt c64-es grafikust, aki igen?
(Á, nem vagyok öreg, csak korán kezdtem... )
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"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite." - William Blake
okay, I think I get it, though what I think the title implies is that it's Mars -- the ancient god and / or the planet -- who judges us... (it's lucky I haven't titled it "Venus, our mother" then. )
(and I'm sure women want men in the discos too, not just the other way round. )
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for now, this cover gives only[sic!] aesthetic considerations
should i interpret those colourful squares as a disco lights? [cause true men do not dance!]
as for people judging a book by its cover: it's just natural, and that's why good design is crucial for the success of a publication. in my case here however, the process is turned inside out, as there's no actual publication behind the cover, there's been nothing to sell, to match. this is an experiment.
--
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite."
- William Blake
{dC}
Picit eszembejuttatja a C64-es korszakot, amikor még minden brutálisan pixeles volt és akkoriban is csináltak hasonló covereket egyes grafikusok, miután egy színesen villogó discoban hülyére táncolták magukat az előző este.
Nagyon tetszik. 10/10
--
Q.: What do Unix sysadmins do when they're horny?
A.: Mount a filesystem.
Ami a c64-es korszakot illeti, lehet, hogy nagyon beletrafáltál az inspirációm forrásába - még nálam is jobban. Miért? Mert nekem nem jutott eszembe ez a dolog, pedig pont a múlt héten szedtem le egy c64-es emulátort, miután egy archív oldalon random (!) ráakadtam egy máshogy megnyithatatlan megademóra, amit még 1991 környékén hoztunk össze egy csapattal. Mit ad isten, én voltam az egyik grafikus, aki mai szemmel télleg brutálisan pixeles ké.peket, logókat gyártott hozzá (mert mást nem lehetett, ugye.)
...de eltérő zenei preferenciám miatt diszkókba akkor sem jártam, hülyére meg pláne nem táncoltam magam. Te talán ismersz olyan, volt c64-es grafikust, aki igen?
(Á, nem vagyok öreg, csak korán kezdtem...
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"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite."
- William Blake
{dC}
amúgy meg akad olyan távoli ismerősöm, de az a gyerek finn és elég rég dumáltam vele
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Q.: What do Unix sysadmins do when they're horny?
A.: Mount a filesystem.
men come from mars ->colorful squares->disco lights->men on the disco, they dance they want women
our judge-> critical lokk for men who go to the disco
hahaha!
sorry
(and I'm sure women want men in the discos too, not just the other way round.
--
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite."
- William Blake
{dC}
--
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite."
- William Blake
{dC}
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