{"id":341,"date":"2016-09-07T13:24:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T13:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/?p=341"},"modified":"2016-09-07T13:24:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T13:24:14","slug":"mustaches-and-monocles-the-short-life-of-daisy-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/uncategorized\/mustaches-and-monocles-the-short-life-of-daisy-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustaches and Monocles: The short life of Daisy Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some of my favorite book covers in the last few years have been minimalist redesigns. \u00a0For example, lots of designers have taken the opportunity to redesign the Harry Potter set.<\/a>\u00a0 I am a little surprised that I ended up this way, considering my original plan.<\/p>\n

I was originally frustrated with many of the\u00a0Daisy Miller\u00a0<\/em>covers I found. \u00a0I tried to find a way to artfully include\u00a0something\u00a0<\/em>else from the story than simply a girl. I tried to think of ways to incorporate the Swiss mountainscape. \u00a0What about Rome? \u00a0They have scenery. \u00a0I had three or four images I wanted to somehow include, but this is a book cover, not a pinterest board.<\/p>\n

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\nI thought of the idea above just last night and conceptually I like it more.\u00a0 I think if I would have come up with it last week, I could have finessed the finished product a little more. Looking at everything once its done, it is striking me how empty the cover feels. Sure, I went with a simple design so that is to be expected. \u00a0Maybe I could have filled the space a little better. \u00a0But\u00a0<\/em> I think I feel this way because you would almost never see a cover like this at a store. \u00a0There would be a price sticker, or a “Soon to be a major motion picture featuring Keira Knightly”. \u00a0I could have added before the title “from the author of…” \u00a0Other popular books will have reviews on the cover even. \u00a0Daisy Miller doesn’t fit into the same category of books as those, so what else might it be missing? \u00a0Almost all of the book covers I looked into before had a publisher logo. Sometimes I’ll buy a copy of a classic just for the Penguin Classic look, and I’m sure I’m not the only one. \u00a0I did the same thing when I shopped more frequently at Barnes and Noble.<\/p>\n

Then there’s my thought behind the design: \u00a0I have always loved the short exchange the characters have on mustaches. \u00a0Daisy takes on love affairs with two men, Winterbourne and Giovanelli. \u00a0Giovanelli being a rouge Italian type, has a wonderful mustache, which readers take as a message of sexual virility. \u00a0Winterbourne takes up the opportunity to make a joke by stroking his own [likely much classier] mustache. \u00a0Daisy Miller is clearly the focus of the novel, but this is coming from Winterbourne as our focal character. \u00a0After all, the original title was\u00a0Daisy Miller: A Study. \u00a0<\/em>Who was studying her but Witnerbourne? \u00a0This cover throws back to that. \u00a0What is interesting in the concept is it’s kind of a cutesy idea, right? \u00a0Mustache, monocle, little painting of a girl. \u00a0It is also almost off-putting because of the blatancy of the male gaze, or to not sound too feminist scholar, a creepy dude staring down some girl.<\/p>\n

It is obvious we will judge a book by its cover. \u00a0This is especially if you’re looking at the shelf and there are 3 editions of the same book. \u00a0I think this book would look silly in hardcover [not to mention it is roughly 40-60 pages, depending on the edition]. \u00a0I imagine my cover to be on a paper back with a sort of matte finish, anything too glossy and I think the dark colors would look strange.<\/p>\n

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