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Nonfiction time I guess
I am reading Silent Spring(tm) by Rachel Carson, environmental biologist extraordinaire. This incredible book is all about why humans suck and how much the world liked it before we Existed. Not exactly, though. The book provides a lot of keen insight on other aspects and possible solutions, (Look in the Mircoblogs for that info!!!!11!1!) and is quite interesting and rightly famous for its apt observations about nature.
For this macroBlog, I decided to make a redesigned book cover, as the current one is just a green background with some yellow lines:
So yeah, I decided to throw in some stuff I found in the book itself to redesign the cover in good ol' Photoshop
Here we go
Granted, It does look somewhat like something potentially out of a horror movie, but is destroying the environment a laughing matter? I think not.
Silent Hill who?
ANyway, there are many aspects of this that I wanted to cover in my explanation of it. Firstly, the smoke.
The smoke is not only meant to represent radioactivity of people, but also the discreetness it brings. The rock doused in nearly-translucent white smoke is covered in a radioactive haze that seems to blend in with the background, showing the invisible nature of environmental issues and the dangers they bring. Radioactivity is associated with terrible things, and again, we see this in the slimy green on the rocks.
Next: The clock
The clock has a picture of the earth inside of it (look closer) and is meant to say that it has stood past the terrors of time so far. However, the radioactive smoke intersecting with it's bottom corner shows that we're sneaking up on time and burning up the clock, slowly destroying the world with our insolence.
The Eye/Rain
The eye watches from above, very very low opacity for a good reason. The once vivid nature of mother nature is no longer as established as it was. Slowly, her watchful eye fades out getting faster and faster by the year. The rain // tears of nature, falling in sorrowful amounts with the only pure thing left on earth. Pure, evaporated H2O, left from billions of years ago. The only thing left that remains purified every few days. This cycle shows the true balance of nature, one with the Force if I may.
We must stop all of this madness before the eye fades out; takes its last blink.
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Raw images used: Rock, Clock, Water - From google
P$$! The cover looks amazing. Yes, it is spooky and ominous like a horror movie, but I think that is appropriate because of the seriousness of the subject matter. It would also catch the eye of the reader. I love the subtlety that you included. I never noticed the earth inside of the clock, it is a really good touch. You said the clock is meant to show how the earth has withstood the test of time in the past, and I also think it could show how we are running out of time with the natural earth. I like how you made your cover a yellowy-green color, which incorporates the colors from the original cover.
ReplyDeleteSup P-DUB! This cover makes it obvious your passion for graphic design. It has an eerie mood, due to the blending of both modern horror elements and classic fonts and colors. Each element is very significant, and you even made the significant evident in choice of opacity, color, location, etc. I like your placement and style used when adding the eye; it contributed to your intended omniscience. Good work!
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