Book Cover How-To: The Optical Illusion of ‘Equations of Life’
By John DeNardo |
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011 at
12:15 am
The awesome Lauren Panepinto, Creative Director of Orbit, is making with the how-to videos again…this time based on the optical illusion cover for Equations of Life by Simon Morden.
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I really like this series of cover images – they stand out from the field – and this tutorial is just awesome sauce on top. This is a case where I’m going to buy the books just for the covers. I hope they’re good!
I can report that it was a case of WANTING to do a really good design because the books were so good….just a great, fast-paced adventure with some great science and near-future thinking. and a great snarky antihero.
Yeah, great covers, Lauren. As always.
Also, I really love the graffiti marketing. So cool.
Can’t wait to start reading the Morden books. Exactly my thing.
I have the first two books. I can tell you the following: as good as the covers are, the books are BETTER.