arm designs

i’ve been getting some new sources of inspiration for the book covers, in particular this one i found, created by graphic designer sigurd mannsaker at http://sigtastic.com/portfolio.html - a wild sheep chase by haruki murakami. see if you can spot the sheep in that pattern… yup, even has the star on it. sick idea and well executed. now to figure out how to apply this to neil gaiman…

Interworld full book cover. i started to like the back, i don’t anymore. need to work on it some more.

good omens full cover. i’m not 100% on the back cover yet, it’s way too similar to the one that exists right now, except for the massive quote marks.

the full cover for american gods, including the spine and the back cover. neil gaiman loves to put his picture and a little bio on the back of every one of his books so i obliged here. i skipped on the barcode and the publisher information/credits, and gen’s probably gonna say something about that. we shall seeeeeeeeeeee

here’s one with a funkier font and i added some color and contrast to the photo. this one pops a whole lot more, but i hate how many covers utilize the whole text/block over the eyes deal. i did it here because the book is all about gods from different cultures living as mortals around the world, indiscernable from other human beings. they’ve taken on clever aliases and are losing strength as faith in each god slowly diminishes. thus, we see and treat them as we would anyone else. i can get away with it, yass?

another - don’t like this one so much but i saw a poster that had a frosted window with a negative image in it and thought it looked pretty sick.

here are five images for the last one. i decided to switch it up and try a different approach. hopefully the image thing on tumblr allows y’all to see each one clearly… let’s find out.

second book cover (just the cover) - neil gaiman’s good omens, a book he did with terry pratchett. it’s about an angel and a demon who have been stationed on earth for six thousand years and pretty much become best friends after thousands of years of rivalry. the point of them being on earth is to deal with the antichrist (the demon to look after the birth/upbringing, the angel to stop it) except… there’s a little mix up at the hospital and the antichrist is lost. the book covers the frantic days before armaggedon with both sides trying to figure out what the hell is going on, where the antichrist is, and what their respective leaders will do once they see that things aren’t going to plan. really funny book. the back gray will act as another spot where i wanna do the shiny see through ink. perhaps.