{"id":324,"date":"2016-09-07T11:57:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T11:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/?p=324"},"modified":"2016-09-07T11:57:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T11:57:34","slug":"the-sun-also-rises-redesign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/uncategorized\/the-sun-also-rises-redesign\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Sun Also Rises’ redesign"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ImageIn my first blog post analyzing the past and current book cover designs for\u00a0The Sun Also \"ImageRises<\/em>, 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. \u00a0I noted the importance of these images and their role within the story as the events taking place involving the characters were often paralleled by the bull fights\u00a0they were watching. So much of this story takes place within Spain and during the “Running of The Bulls” festival in Pamplona, Spain and these more recent covers are indeed focusing on that sense of\u00a0placement. Although I again admit the importance of the setting of the story, what I wanted to focus more on in my redesigned cover was the idea of the fights themselves, and less on where these fights were taking place. Although I appreciated the symbolism of the bull, there were\u00a0so\u00a0<\/em>many iterations of bulls on covers (I counted at least 10), that I felt it was a bit overdone, but also I felt that I wouldn’t be able to sufficiently update and improve the image of the bull in any new or exciting way.<\/p>\n

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I wanted to continue to focus on the symbolism regarding the fights, but I wanted to do it in a different way. Where the above images illicit a sense of place (Spain), I didn’t necessarily want to my redesign to do the same. \u00a0I’ve already noted the importance of the location, but I felt it wasn’t as necessary as the idea of the fights themselves. \u00a0In order to do this, I did away with the imagery of the Spanish bullfighter and the bull, and instead included a scene of many people. As the people within the novel go about their lives, they are constantly fighting, not only with one another, but also with society as expatriates after WWI. \u00a0Beyond the literal War that some of the characters were involved in, life itself is a battle where you have to fight for what you want. This is what I take away from the symbolism of the bull fights throughout the novel, and I wanted to present that in my cover redesign. \u00a0However, I wanted to keep the idea\/image of the bull ring, or arena, but without imposing a specific placement. \u00a0Ideally (read: if my Photoshop skills were better), I would have done away with the\u00a0scenery in the background of the arena, and focused more closely on the stadium seating, emphasizing the idea of spectators and of the “fight” itself. \u00a0Although I suppose that there aren’t many bull fighting arena’s outside of places that actually practice bull fighting, I wanted my cover design to suggest that this “fight”, and any spectators, could really exist anywhere. \u00a0I would have also liked to scale down the people and their party a bit more, showing and layering these two images together at more personal angle. \u00a0I wanted it to appear as though whoever was looking at this book cover was looking it as if they were seated across from them on the other side of the arena, instead of the overhead view my current redesign portrays. However, given my struggles, I think the main message I wanted to convey is still present in my redesign as it appears above.<\/p>\n

Regarding the color scheme of my cover, I chose to do away with the red that I noted was present in most of the existing cover designs. \u00a0I went with a color scheme closer to the original cover that was published in 1926, with warm, muted colors. \u00a0Although the colors of the people in the arena are relatively bright and colorful, they are still a bit muted. These characters live colorful lives and I wanted to portray that without too much of a contrast.\u00a0As these people continue on with their lives, the sun also rises. \u00a0I wanted that message to continue on in my cover, but instead of the color red, I chose to include a golden-yellow color, one that I felt still resembled the colors of a sun rise, but without being too much or too bright against the other colors that were already present, and one similar to those colors found in the first cover\/dust jacket. \u00a0This was also done in an attempt to move just a bit further away from the bull\/bull fighter imagery of many past cover designs. I suppose my redesign doesn’t necessarily evoke a feeling of modernity, but real photographs simply didn’t have the effect I wanted and honestly, I felt they looked cheesy.\u00a0Perhaps this was because of the images I was attempting to use, but I felt the painting effect was more in line with my overall intentions for this redesign. \u00a0I chose the typewriter font because although its classic, it felt more modern to me than anything more script-y like the 2006 cover font.<\/p>\n

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