Every once in a while I get to design book covers, which is something I really enjoy doing due to the creative possibilities involved in the process. Most of the time photographs from rights-managed stock is preferred, but when I have an idea that involves a typographic solution, I offer it to my client, sometimes even with success. As was the case with a book by Adam Fawer, simply called 0. (zero), a thriller about a statistics Ph.D. student who can tap into the collective unconcious after having recieved experimental treatment for his temporal lobe epilepsy and then gets chased by the FBI and the russian mob ... whatever, I didn't read it.
More important is the fact, that the publisher loved the design and that it made it into production, eventhough the author's name is set in 9pt on the cover. I just finished designing Fawer's second book. Unfortunately I cannot show it here, since it's not yet published.
I remebe ryou talking about this. Looks really good! It's amazing that they agreed to the mall name too.
Posted by: Peter | December 06, 2006 at 02:34 PM
Thank you! Yes, this was a first for the publisher too, the author set in 9pt. I had to promise to set it really big on the spline to compensate :D
Posted by: Simon Schmidt | December 06, 2006 at 02:44 PM