This Is Fifty-Three, day 42
Discovering that my more elaborate manipulations of stroke width in InDesign are not surviving the export to PDF (from which they simply disappear)—or even to JPEG (in which they form partial blocks bearing no resemblance to what I had been seeing on my monitor)—I worked a bit more on the cover yesterday.
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This Is Fifty-Three, day 41, part 2
Feeling slightly restless, I played around with the cover a bit more.
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This Is Fifty-Three, day 30
Argh! This afternoon, I did battle with InDesign CS6, which is becoming increasingly finicky as time goes on…
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This Is Fifty-Three, day 29
I can already tell that I will not be getting much done today. Inspiration is sorely lacking. That said,
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My next collection of poems, Coffee Stains, is well under way. Though I have already made a couple of minor adjustments, here is a preview of the cover: Continue reading
Here is the cover art for my next collection of poems.
The photo was shot on my phone, and edited (levels, curves, sharpening, crop, RGB-to-CMYK conversion) in Photoshop.
The typeface is Compacta Bold BT. If it looks vaguely familiar, that’s because it figured prominently on album and singles covers by The KLF.
More to come…
(12 August 2015)
I have started on my next collection of poems. Though I do have the basic contents compiled, this time I am focusing on the cover first.
The first few drafts are in a Work-in-Progress album on Behance.
(3 August 2015)
Yeah, I accidentally stepped on the book this morning. Time to locate some duct tape…
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I have uploaded four drafts of the cover for my next poetry collection, “The Imperfect Document” to Behance. Have a look, if you’re so inclined:
#1
https://www.behance.net/wip/964129/1735283
#2
https://www.behance.net/wip/964129/1735289
#3
https://www.behance.net/wip/964129/1735291
#5 (#4 on Behance)
https://www.behance.net/wip/964129/1735295
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