Murderland - 1
Fingers on the Firmament - 2
Bliss-Robed Lie - 3
Agonia/Super Spikeball - 4
Danger Sxool/Burning Yet - 5
The Envelope/TWTAG/IJRP1 - 6
Last Days of Old Macau - 7
Nine Suns Must Fall - 8
Gettin’ there. This one is the one I like best thus far. I’m thinking, like, this tells me kokopelli is the Galileo Games logo, or one iteration thereof, anyway. Is that the plan? I like him a lot, but I feel like maybe he needs to be inside the book rather than on the cover, let the photo speak for itself.
Or maybe he can be a silhouette that lives behind the text, in like red-brown against the black.
Shreyas: I tried the silhouette being the text and it didn’t really work. I’m okay with implying that it’s a logo, actually, as long as Brennan is. I like the normal Galileo Games logo (though not the font it uses), but it doesn’t really fit here.
John: Thanks, dude. How do you feel about the new gradients? I know it’s hard to tell on such a low-res pic.
I actually really like the faux bellyband/obi look of the one two versions before this, and the orangey-brown color of that box. This one looks like a lot of small-time university press books that I own.
Unfortunately, it’s hard to create a design that works successfully when 1/3 of it is covered by a bellyband, real or illusory.
2008 May 8 at 6:00 pm
Gettin’ there. This one is the one I like best thus far. I’m thinking, like, this tells me kokopelli is the Galileo Games logo, or one iteration thereof, anyway. Is that the plan? I like him a lot, but I feel like maybe he needs to be inside the book rather than on the cover, let the photo speak for itself.
Or maybe he can be a silhouette that lives behind the text, in like red-brown against the black.
2008 May 8 at 6:23 pm
Very nice! I agree with Shreyas that kokopelli looks like a logo. Not a bad thing necessarily.
2008 May 9 at 2:45 am
Mmm. I love Penguin. I want to buy this book.
2008 May 9 at 9:40 am
Shreyas: I tried the silhouette being the text and it didn’t really work. I’m okay with implying that it’s a logo, actually, as long as Brennan is. I like the normal Galileo Games logo (though not the font it uses), but it doesn’t really fit here.
John: Thanks, dude. How do you feel about the new gradients? I know it’s hard to tell on such a low-res pic.
Matthijs: Exactly the reaction I’m aiming for.
2008 May 9 at 10:41 am
I actually really like the faux bellyband/obi look of the one two versions before this, and the orangey-brown color of that box. This one looks like a lot of small-time university press books that I own.
Unfortunately, it’s hard to create a design that works successfully when 1/3 of it is covered by a bellyband, real or illusory.