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fredag den 11. maj 2018
Kirkebycovers, top 10
(de fleste fundet på Asger Schancks generøse Facebook-profil, hvor en noget nær komplet samling er udstillet (helt komplet hvad angår omslag til AS's egne forlag, Swing og Bebop (hvortil PK skabte SAMTLIGE omslag))
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onsdag den 29. april 2015
Aflyste køer
Googlede som en gal efter ny Lydia Davis-tekst, som kunne have være blevet læst op i aftes, men uden held - fandt i stedet to ubrugte omslag til Can't and Won't ved LD's faste omslagsdesigner Charlotte Strick, begge med køer på:
Stricks kommentar:
Ariana (kotegneren LB) and I went through several rounds of cows. At first they all felt too disengaged and then "not gestural and painterly enough." Lydia hoped they would be "slightly threatening" while also "curious." We changed to a 3/4-view and facial expressions that made it clear these cows weren’t willing to move from their positions on the page, but it started to feel to everyone like the whole cow idea was too cute and Lydia’s work is not cute. She had warned me by email that she "might simply feel in the end that any image of a cow over-determines the way the book is approached..." Clearly it was time to move on.
These early sketches look so fussy to me now, though Ariana’s painting style is simple and sophisticated and the color would be just as limited in the final jacket design. That "final" design was actually one of my very first ideas, scribbled in a notepad, but instead of working it out I’d been seduced by Davis’s bovine neighbors and lost my way. Often you need to build a jacket design till it’s dense with ideas – then find the time, will and clarity to strip, strip, strip away. Lydia’s writing is that stripped down too, and to get a design right for her work I need to remind myself of this.
At first I was sorry to see these cows amble off my jacket design, but when I looked back at my computer screen, I saw that what was left was a blank space and these words:
Finally, I choose to deboss all these words to give them another layer of strength. Like the cows, this book (and its jacket) now quietly stands its ground, daring you to look away.
- det endelige rent bogstavelige, koløse omslag
Stricks kommentar:
Ariana (kotegneren LB) and I went through several rounds of cows. At first they all felt too disengaged and then "not gestural and painterly enough." Lydia hoped they would be "slightly threatening" while also "curious." We changed to a 3/4-view and facial expressions that made it clear these cows weren’t willing to move from their positions on the page, but it started to feel to everyone like the whole cow idea was too cute and Lydia’s work is not cute. She had warned me by email that she "might simply feel in the end that any image of a cow over-determines the way the book is approached..." Clearly it was time to move on.
These early sketches look so fussy to me now, though Ariana’s painting style is simple and sophisticated and the color would be just as limited in the final jacket design. That "final" design was actually one of my very first ideas, scribbled in a notepad, but instead of working it out I’d been seduced by Davis’s bovine neighbors and lost my way. Often you need to build a jacket design till it’s dense with ideas – then find the time, will and clarity to strip, strip, strip away. Lydia’s writing is that stripped down too, and to get a design right for her work I need to remind myself of this.
At first I was sorry to see these cows amble off my jacket design, but when I looked back at my computer screen, I saw that what was left was a blank space and these words:
...because, they said, I was lazy. What they meant by lazy was that I used too many contractions: for instance, I would not write out in full words cannot and will not, but instead contracted them to can’t and won’t.I had to laugh -- it turns out I’d been pretty stubborn too! Davis’s sentences hadn’t needed embellishment; they’d just needed me to stop thinking beyond their simple statement... and for me to find an equally straightforward way to set them on a page.
Finally, I choose to deboss all these words to give them another layer of strength. Like the cows, this book (and its jacket) now quietly stands its ground, daring you to look away.
- det endelige rent bogstavelige, koløse omslag
torsdag den 31. oktober 2013
Kulørt ekstremisme
Jeg anmelder og læser for længst ikke længere Ib Michaels romaner, og i den rækkefølge: når jeg ikke anmelder - for det ville virke, kan jeg forstå, som en bevidst "provokation"! ja, af MINE smagsløg! - er det virkelig svært at tage sig sammen til at læse af pligt, for slet ikke at tale om lyst, men jeg kan da følge med i omslagene, og dette til den nye roman er det virkelig svært at forstille sig mere spektakulært og grelt og indtrængende GRIMT, det er så helt fantastisk og utroligt GRIMT, at det næsten, men også kun næsten er avantgardistisk GRIMT, måske er det faktisk det GRIMMESTE omslag på en dansk roman NOGENSINDE, hvis der var En Nordisk Råds Grimmeste Forside-Pris ville Himlen brændte får den flere år ud i fremtiden, græsseligste, grusommste, grummeste grimt:
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