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Need help with ideas for a book cover
Hi fellow artists!
I'm working on a cover for a book that a friend of mine is writing with some professors at her university. Unfortunately I have no idea what to draw so I was hoping that you could help me with any ideas. The title of the book hasn't been decided yet but it's about Jewish/Christian (Western/European civilization) history of ideas/world picture contra the Roman/Greek (Middle East civilization) history of ideas/world picture. The chapters are about the different views of the world as famous (religious) philosophers/writers/poets or the authors (professors) see it etc. Some of the chapters are about: - Martin Heidegger's experience of divinity through nature and landscape. - Kant's view of the relation between moral and religion. - Natural science and religion (thesis of secularization, thesis of conflict in the books by Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Galileo Galileo and Nikolaus Kopernikus) - The theologians Søren Kierkegaard, K.E. Løgstrup and Johannes Sløk and their individual presentation of their understanding of the relationship between God and Man. - The reformation - the Age of Enlightenment's historyphilosophical clash with the ecclesiatical view of history. - the Age of Enlightenment and Christianity Help! :crazy: |
Perhaps have paths for each view leading up, into the image background to a central point representing the goal, heaven, the end of each path as different roads the the same things, then line the paths with images from the various prespctives. Its a little early for brainstorming but I tried o.0
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Maybe have the "heaven" be an open book - those who are atheist could see it as truth in knowledge, and those christian/jewish could see it as the book of life, or the bible.
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I've often pondered what thought process goes behind the vague artistic metaphors on my textbook covers. When I ask other people, they look at me with that "what the hell does it matter" glare. But I see them peer discreetly at their textbook covers later wondering the same thing as I.
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How about drawing a huge ass...
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I don't think the professors would appreciate that image .. allthough I do think it would attract many readers :p |
no more suggestions? :(
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lol, j/k. The idea of a open book seems like a really good one though. |
Going back to my earlier days in this forum. How about a huge eye...? j/k
I like the open book, with no text. perhaps someone with a pen, waiting to write? I dont know. My mind is mush at the moment. I just took 2 rather long/hard test in a row. |
hmmmm
why don't u just take a well known classic and modify it a bit e.g. the creation of adam by Michelangelo, just put adam a sword in his right hand everybody will interpret something else into the picture, thus creating controversy, which makes a book interresting |
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A huge ass
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Dizzet, I think we've already established your ass cannot go on the cover :p - Cause after all, she'd have to have a model, right?
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The open book (maybe with shining white light glowing from it's pages) is a nice idea for a symbolic image. Perhaps with light a little bit like 1.)
As the book is going to have so lots of references to nature, the world and general spirtuality, perhaps you might want to include imagery along the lines of 2.) or 3.) 1.) http://www.shininglightpress.com/frontcover.jpg 2.) http://www.spirituality.org/new/images/sky_clouds.jpg 3.) http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mgb/earth.jpeg The sky can be suggestive of the ephemeral nature of life, whereas the World image can indicate the circle of life/balance of nature etc... Possible other useful images could be hands i.e. praying, holding hands are very simple and very emotive... Personally, I'd say the more complex the issues (within the book) the simpler the cover illustration/photo should be, relying on the book's title to stand out from the cover (in a bold but subtle font). Perhaps a simple black and white nature photo, like this: http://www.acclaimimages.com/_galler...15-4500_SM.jpg Anyway just some ideas to get you thinking. It sounds like a fun project! Try to have fun doing it and hopefully that will come across in the end result. Good luck, and don't forget to post the final product here one day! |
I see Jesus being dissected under an elaborate map of stars, constellations and galaxies out in the middle of nature, laying on a stack of history and philosophy books, with his heart glowing like E.T.
You could pick which philosophers/writers/poets/theologians/professors would be doing the dissection. (I'm weird, I know.) |
Howsabout somthing naturalistic like a flower or a shrub (a burning one, even). Then, kind of gradient it from a photo through a painting through a sketch, through a schematic
BTW, Christian/Jewish is Middle Eastern. Greek/Roman, that's western. I might run a few bars from a Bach Fugue across the top, and maybe an arabesque border along the bottom (like at El Escorial.) |
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thank you for all those suggestions - each and one of them are great! :thumbsup: I like the the symbolism of the globe, sky and flower... maybe I can mix those together somehow... |
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