Designer: Helen Yentus
Art Director: Paul Buckley
title: Sun and Shadow
author: Ake Edwardson
publisher: Viking Adult, 2005
Designer: Helen Yentus
Art Director: Paul Buckley
title: Sun and Shadow
author: Ake Edwardson
publisher: Viking Adult, 2005
It’s really bugging me that I can’t quite figure out what that type is made of. Electric tape, maybe?
Gorgeous cover.
My only critique is that the faded photograph that acts as the background has a light source of its own, but the shadows of the type don’t react accordingly.
— Ben Pieratt, 2006-07-18 13:27:00
It’s a pity there’s a photograph at all. It seems rather surplus to requirements.
— jim, 2006-07-19 03:08:00
I think that it would be a bit flat without the background – like the texture that it gives.
Beautiful cover!
— marilyn, 2006-07-19 06:48:00
I don’t think the light sources should match. If they did the title wouldn’t stand out as well as it does.
— rek, 2006-07-19 12:12:00
What’s interesting about the use of the photo is that ‘Sun’ is in a darker part of the picture and ‘Shadow’ is in a lighter part.
That said, the typeface is rather bothering me, but as a whole I think it works.
— cfk, 2006-07-20 10:11:00
Definitely eye-catching, but i don’t quite understand what the type is made out of.
— nathalie k, 2006-07-20 13:56:00
my guess is squid ink fettucine ;) I’m not picking but genuinely interested, was there much of this organic type stuff doing on before sagmeister?
— nick, 2006-07-20 17:16:00
Great treatment.
I would’ve preferred a cleaner non-grunge font for the author’s name etc in the upper right corner…kinda cheapens the rest of the look I think.
— Jeff E., 2006-07-24 13:35:00
The book is a not very interesting criminal novel, and I am suprised this translation’s got such a nice cover! The original Swedish print has a really boring one (I’m from Sweden).
— Henning Trollbäck, 2006-08-23 00:18:00
I hope the designer tipped her hat to Ed Ruscha.
— Victor, 2006-08-29 08:01:00
When you look at the rest of the package, you see that the type is made of the “pulled” tape from a recording cassette.
— Jesse Marinoff Reyes, 2006-09-19 11:52:00
its very beautiful…
— ismail basbeth, 2006-10-06 03:41:00
i like the script / the author’s name box area is just plain messy
— perry, 2006-11-09 18:12:00
Wow! awesome.
— Ian B. Shimkoviak, 2007-02-19 16:09:00
This is fantastic. The Ed Ruscha shout is fair however…
— Nils, 2007-09-10 15:02:00