Thursday, 20 June 2013
Ancient North: New & Improved
As a follow-up to yesterday's posting of the Penguin Legends of the Ancient North covers, here they are in their final, high-resolution versions: please click for nice big versions. They are the work of Petra Borner (previously discussed here and here), and were made of layered papercuts at a startling A2 scale. As for the stickers mentioned in that last post, Penguin's art editor, Isabelle De Cat, is very reassuring: "it does peel off, and it does peel off super-neatly: I made absolutely sure of that. I’ve been testing all the stickers the production controller could source until we found the perfect thing that will not damage the covers." So I'll be buying all five, then! (And for more amazing papercut illustrations, see this old post...)
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2 comments:
Stunning! I’m definitely going in for Sir Gawain, and also The Wanderer, which I’ve never even heard of before. The only reason I buy print books these days is cover design (depressing), and these are worth it.
Excellent! And that comment from the designer is very encouraging - always nice to know that people in positions like that care as much about these things as we sad people do...
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