I am pleased to present the first results of the Miracle Agency in collaboration with Jeremy Guérineau, author of Adaptations of Stephen King .
As the title of the book indicates, whatever the medium, any adaptation of any content from Stephen King is referenced. Needless to say This is a book fan, for fans ... a kind of B2B in fact!
The problem lies here, then, how to satisfy fans and at the same time their understanding that the contents of the book may be of interest. I wanted to avoid the patchwork blankets in all directions, knowing that each edition differed visually.
I left on a track next to be basic. We are talking about Stephen King, and his books. Must both be present on the cover. Here is the first track (which has also been confirmed in the meantime):
Notice that the majority of titles are present King on the cover, the game between black and white can reveal her figure, only the fans are able to recognize! And as the book is A4, it will be at least a chance of being seen from afar. For the moment it comes out only online soon on The Book Edition.
Nevertheless, we continued to work on another axis, from the author this time. Inspired by posters very minimalist representatives a book by a pictogram, we went to a similar result. Indeed, based on a novel cover Midnight 4 , we decided to combine the two.
The idea was to select 12 major novels and represent a symbol. These twelve would then subsequently distributed all around the clock by changing the numbers. The author also wanted to add a "foggy bottom" behind this clock, but the idea was quickly abandoned to make way something more graphic and more refined. After searching
ideas without copying pictographs on the beautiful posters I mentioned just before, just changed the book put forward, changed the order of the illustrations, I managed to arrive at a consensus that we meet one and another. I would just like to clarify that the track was abandoned, there is a version of "draft":
I do not know if you noticed the funny note but the clock is set exactly on the hour ax ...
This version, although it was also responding to what the author was looking for has been discontinued since the images used to draw the symbols were not copyrighted and we do not have the budget.
It seemed then that coverage becomes much more complex to understand even though I'm pretty proud graphically.
I then proposed to keep the idea of icons, but put them in a position to give some momentum to these illustrations. After several tries, I realized that this did nothing worthwhile.
We therefore opted for reflection after the first version. The author's words are more telling: "I love this idea because it can take title of his work, while his picture (in King ed.) Bravo for the idea. As I told you I find it interesting somewhat original and the book looks good ... "
I look forward to your feedback and reactions on this first work.
Here views of the author on this project:
Indeed I really like the 2 blankets. It was a tough choice for the decision of the final cover, and if I could, I propose 2 blankets through the print service on demand, and customers would choose the coverage they wanted.
Nevertheless, the fact that self-publishing is not a real issue, the budget is much smaller ... and the coverage will remain in both draft version, and will not be used commercially.
Again, I thank you for your creativity and your appetite design as shown in each of these two covers. I am fully satisfied with the result ..
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