----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 1:25
PM
Subject: Re: etcetera
Try them out and see - I'll back your artistic taste
over mine any day.
Some more ideas - part from the Set Speech Rune idea,
I had thought of looking at things like Dawkins' biomorphs as inspiration
sources for an Eater bestiary - they are very simple but they are generated
from genetic elements in a life-similar way
there are several design elements that could extend
the front cover illo borders or could allow a picture to be embedded in
them. One obvious one (in a NL context) is penrose tiling, which
is the pattern used on the gaming table. Google fro (very numerous)
pix. A tiling that looked as if it were mede of cut stones (ie some
roughness, cracking) intrlocking with Escher-like elaborations, if it extended
out from the front cover pic and steadily "decayed" as it got furthur away
from the immediate frame might be a good way of hinting at the chaos of the
Land surrounding the Redoubt.
That's just one idea, I'll spin off more as I
can.
Yes, the cover pic should be tinted, two
colors
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 1:03
PM
Subject: Re: etcetera
Ok.
I'm still of the opinion that some -
very basic - border for the interior illos would be nice. Maybe just a
simple rectangular frame with a little embellishment at the corners. Simple
but elegant.
The cover illo would, I
feel, benefit by being 'embedded' in an overall 'design' which might
extend to the back cover.
I'm assuming the cover should be
printed in 2 colours. I may be being simply damn stupid here in which case
it's time you disabused me of this delusion.
Best:
Smuzz
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 11:58
AM
Subject: Re: etcetera
Ha! A real artist is his own worst
critic . . .
Borders . . on reflection I agrree with Brett +
don't think they are needed except on the cover illo. In fact
I do think they would be a positive distraction in the
interior.
((The type of border on the cover depends on the
type of picture we select. The tentative idea for "set speech runic"
is that the long-distance semaphore that is the Set Speech (displayed on
the Tower in "quick darting flashes" to be seen out in the Night Land) is
composed of straight lines joined up and so is a bit like runes: and that
this has been elaborated over milions of years into a derived handwritten
symblogy or series of such symbols or iconograph sets used in decoration,
writing, etc. I have occasionally used rune-names from the
FUTHARK as descriptors, without implying that these are descended from AS
runes CE 800 but simlply because they sound cool. But all this
depends on the type of pic, as I said. If its set out in the
Land a bestiary of Eaters might be a more effective marginalia . . .but
cover pic before cover border
))