Cool book cover for IRs book

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I really like that cover. From an artistic standpoint, it is fundamentally perfect, and a nice modern take on the old school comic silkscreen like designs. I was thinking about playing with designing a cover, but after I saw that, I knew there was no way I could top it, nor did I want to. Here are the pics, so you don't have to leave the forums...

http://www.pixelslide.com/quickStuf...eat_Housing_Bubble_Book_Cover_01_onJacket.jpg

http://www.pixelslide.com/quickStuff/HousingBubble/The_Great_Housing_Bubble_Book_Cover_01.jpg

http://www.pixelslide.com/quickStuff/HousingBubble/The_Great_Housing_Bubble_Book_Cover_02.jpg

Just awesome work. :coolsmile:
 
Hey - I'm glad you guys liked the book cover!

I admit that I didn't read the book in its' entirety, but I was inspired by the title & subject to do something that I thought might work... I sketched out a couple of ideas and jumped into Photoshop...

I can see doing it a number of different ways... as graphrix mentioned, it's done in a silkscreen/comic-book style... there's a pop-sensibility to it, but, I don't know if it addresses' the subject matter "seriously" enough... to me, that kind of hand-made image treatment - silk screen, hand-drawn text - suggests low-budget-but-ambitious, rebellion, grass-roots, of-the-people, etc... something along the line of a political protest poster or punk-rock handbill... Something photo-realistic would convey something else altogether... bigger budget, perhaps, clarity of vision (if the illustration was super-tightly conceived & rendered) see Freakonomics' book cover with the apple/orange for a decent example of photo-real illustration... If the book cover was just text - something along the lines of Blink, I think the suggestion would be the tome was more academic... any of those treatments would be good ones if done well, and would probably be the prerogative of a publisher...

Anyway... I don't design book covers for a living... I sell real estate... I just happen to collect books and have been drawing since I was a kid... it's something I enjoy...

I just thought I'd do something that came to me that morning...
 
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