Archive for September, 2016
9/12: McGann Blog Prompt
In his essay “Information Technology and the Troubled Humanities,” Jerome McGann summarizes what it means to be a humanist with the help of a famous quotation from the poet Charles Swinburne. “Glory to man in the highest, for man is the master of things,” is Swinburne’s contention (qtd. 62). McGann extrapolates from this, arguing that […]
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland New Cover
New Cover Design for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Historically the majority of the book covers have always held a classic and traditional feel to them, following the period of time they were associated with during their publishing. Many of these book covers started out with simple designs, often hand drawn that eluded to the idea […]
Utopia Redesign
The redesign for this book cover was quite an enjoyably frustrating task because I had a million different ideas and also no idea how to use Photoshop prior to this assignment. I reinstalled it on my computer and kept a tab on Google open to give myself some instruction along the way. It worked […]
Catch 22 Book Cover
After revisiting my previous blog post and looking at the numerous covers that have emerged since the first publication of catch 22, I revised my cover from the ideas I had after the first assignment. In my search for images related to world war 2, Italy, Mannequins and whatnot I came across the image that […]
Mustaches and Monocles: The short life of Daisy Miller
Some of my favorite book covers in the last few years have been minimalist redesigns. For example, lots of designers have taken the opportunity to redesign the Harry Potter set. I am a little surprised that I ended up this way, considering my original plan. I was originally frustrated with many of the Daisy Miller covers […]
‘The Sun Also Rises’ redesign
In my first blog post analyzing the past and current book cover designs for The Sun Also Rises, I included images for the 2003 book cover (on the left) and the 2006 book cover (on the right), discussing the bull and bull fighter imagery present on both covers. I noted the importance of these images and […]
The Bell Jar Recovering Assignment
My final book cover of The Bell Jar was an attempt to take a little bit of everything from the past fifty years of cover editions and compile it all into a cover that displays, what I like to believe, things Plath would have approved of. Though there were two large concepts that were missing […]
New and improved Neuromancer cover
Neuromancer has had problematic covers throughout its history. From the problematic covers of the 80’s that have not aged well, to the most recent covers which seam rather bland and didn’t really seem to convey anything about the theme of the book. This is a shame considering the book is considered to be one of […]
Children of the Alley Re-Covering Design
The novel I chose has many complexities embedded in the plot, and in order to analyze it, the reader has to have an adequate amount of historical backgrounds for religions. However, since I assume most of the class haven’t read the novel, I will try to summarize the plot. In brief, the novel talks about […]
Lolita, redesigned
In my analysis of Lolita covers over the last 60 years, I argued that those following Kubrick’s film were notably more sexually explicit than those released in the 90s and later. I attribute this to a shift in how we have come to think about sexuality, youth, rape. Though this text is considered a respected piece […]
