Here are sample covers. Give us your input.


cheers
B+I

sooo sorry about the delay on sending you guy's what we've done so far, school has been mad crazy that it totally slipped my mind.
This is the sort of style we are going for, but we have a lot of refinements that we need to do, but this is essentially what we are doing.. All the photos I am using are one's that I took when I was home in California. We are also experimenting with printing on different papers (off-white and various brown shades). We have also been experimenting with layering and burning paper. Irina is doing the drawings which are going to be layered over the graphics that I have made..
Soo, here is some of the first drafts: (let us know what you guys think! :)

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thought this was cool:

So, for the layout/images, we are inspired by artist Evan Hecox (work pictured above). Using collaged prints of images and putting them together in Hecox's style. Its very similar to the images you guy's posted earlier. We also really like the color scheme you guy's chose, so we are going to stick with that.

For the size we had to make it bigger, to 5.5 in by 7in--it still has a small/not too bulky/ delicate feel to it.

For execution we are printing on brown construction paper (think paper bag material). Irina is going to try to wood cut the type for the cover. We are also going to include very sketchy-sketches (something like you posted--very simple and rough lines). We are going to handbind it and create a sort of claspe to close and open the book. We will keep you updated on the look.

Also if you could please send us all your files so we can begin setting up the layouts. That would be amazing.

If the ichat thing doesn't work out we can post images on the blog and talk to each other via phone about the work we posted and get feedback from eachother.
Here is Irina's number: 347-756-1647
Mine (Brittany) is: 626-975-8604

Let us know what you think and be sure to send us the files.
Thaank you and talk to you soon
Brittany

Hey guys,

so Jenn and I had a mini-meeting during our class this week and we came up with some basics regarding how the type/aesthetics might function. this is all a suggestion so feel free to interject with changes/etc.

size: 5 x 6.5in (small, intimate dimensions, a little more square than most books)

color palette: we were thinking straight black and white or a good use of bold but really desaturated colors. we're definitely thinking of printing the interior book pages on off white/beige paper and really like this exact palette:


like the beige paper would be the skate deck, the colors would be the colors of the buildings, and the type would be set in black.

if we choose color it has to be done quite succinctly to portray bukowski still, but with a little bit of lightness/life.

typography: we are thinking type on the front and poem titles would be a nice condensed like berthold azkidenz grotesk condensed mixed with the type set in a nice humanist bembo.




imagery: we were thinking we would like some illustration and less photography. we wanted to integrate the imagery into the text itself so we were thinking really abstract and divided into different categories:

1. graphic (like the skate deck examples, bold shapes, dynamic lines)


2. humanist lines (sort of like messy scribbles, sketching, contour drawing)


3. geometric lines (really strict, succinct, detailed and almost nervous line work) not the bird haha



4. watercolor (color bleeding off pages and sitting behind text, loose, messy) like the top left one)


so in any case, we wanted to show a lonely, human, but still gritty side of bukowski. being depressed as shit is pretty fucking human, i think. we any image treatment can be put together (like geometric lines on watercolor or wtvr)or whatever you think is best. we will throw some grittiness on it so it doesn't look too clean/polished. just not tacky/cheesy/predictable is all.

basically: abstract imagery/nothing obvious/cliche, condensed type w/ humanist serif text, muted/gritty color palette, beige paper.

i made these really terrible random image experimentations. Don't judge me, haha

I like all of these poems a lot. Right now I am working on different drawings overlayed on top of b+w photographs that go along with/relate with the poems--all mixed media. Its all pretty similar to the photos/inspiration photos you guys have posted. When I finish I can post them on the blog to get feedback/etc. I've been in California the past week with no internet for a majority of the time, so its been kind of hard for me to communicate via the blog. Talk to all you guys soon, Brittany