Thursday, 21 January 2010
How to Make a Chinese or Japanese Book Cover (Epilogue)
In the comments to the last post, Matthew Adams draws attention to another side of Asian literature in the West: "I reckon every book that comes out of Asia should have a kung fu master, ninja or samurai on it. And the really good books would have all three on the cover." Even better would be one that had a ninja AND everything else from the previous post. So here we go: the ultimate Asian book cover...
Everything but the font. That reminds me too much of Tiki design. Maybe something more Chinese takeaway food menu-style, like this: http://www.dafont.com/shanghai.font
ReplyDeleteBut, yeah, pretty much nailed it.
Q:What typeface is that?
ReplyDeleteA:Stereotype.
I love it. It's like chinese takeaway.
The really sad fact is that the western books I have seen that have been translated into Japanese often have beautiful orignal covers on them by Japanese designers.
And JRSM, I suspect you have too much time on your hands (unless you actually found that cover on the web, in which case....I am lost for words). I hate it when I get time all over my hands, it's stinky and doesn't wash off.
Bob: That Shanghai font would have been the one! I just chose the most offensively obvious font I had to hand, which was called Bamboo Chopsticks, but that would have been better.
ReplyDeleteMatthew: I was technically being paid to do something else at the time, so it was time well spent.