Describe a house, describe the inhabitants (or inhabitants since departed). Below are examples of house interiors from novels and short fiction. A RURAL COTTAGE IN 1950s ENGLAND The room downstairs at the front of this cottage would appear to serve Mr and Mrs Taylor as both dining room and general living quarters. It is a…
This is one of those low effort, big reward tricks which is so very common on professionally designed book covers but relatively rare on less attractive self-published books: The graphic designer integrates the text into the graphic in some way, often to create the illusion of depth.
King Midas was a King of Phrygia, a dominant kingdom in Asia Minor from around 1200–700 BC. He thought quite a lot of himself apparently, and boasted that anything he touched would turn to gold. Perhaps he was speaking metaphorically, but he goes down in mythology as a supernatural character whose touch would literally turn anything…
“A Little Journey” is a 1951 short story by American author Ray Bradbury, first published in the August 1951 edition of Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine.
These contemporary book covers all utilise fluorescent, neon or glowing colours to eye-catching effect.
Let’s take a look at collage and mixed media effects in contemporary book cover graphic design. The book cover in the header is not a real book. Created for learning purposes only. The central graphic is from The Australian Journal, 1 November 1950 edition.
I used an AI art generator to knock up some quick book covers, but I didn’t make books. I made boring supermarket items.
The Kutsuwa T’GAAL pencil sharpener sold to Japanese school children comes highly recommended by pencil enthusiasts. Let’s find out why.
This collection of book covers features black, white and a single colour. Further down, let’s take a look at the wide range of covers utilising only black and white.
When talking about ‘colour’ artists are talking about several things rolled into one.
If you weren’t told who wrote “Wake for Susan” (1959), I doubt you’d guess it were by American author Cormac McCarthy.
Today I’ll compare two brands of coloured pencil which come in large sets. I can’t compare any other large coloured-pencil sets because I have only tried Prismacolor and Brutfuner.
Once upon a time there lived three bears. They decided to live in a house after simply stumbling upon a cute cottage one day, in a wood. Also of note: They weren’t really bears.
Princess Brunhild sprinted across the palace gardens, hitched her skirts and leapt up the marble steps, three at a time. She ignored the guards and skidded across the parquet floor, careening to the right. She blundered elbow first into the front parlour. “Lower your cups!” she yelled. Both older sisters did as directed. By the…
At least the girl wore white. The bright night-gown shimmered as she ran. The heavens thundered, and glowed as if burning.