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Blurb Vehicle: The Wax Lyrical: 'By the Book' by Ramona Koval
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Book cover design by W.H. Chong. The Wax Lyrical: 'By the Book' by Ramona Koval. Leading up to last Christmas I was gratified to see people go up to bookshop counters clutching copies of Koval's By the Book. Books about reading books, a book subtitled: A Reader's Guide to Life. That's as bookish as booklovers get. Ramona Koval’s By the Book. One thought was to do a metabook cover, like Penguin by Design. But I had been working on Geordie Williamson's The Burning Library. There is this passage in the book:.
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Blurb Vehicle: January 2013
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Book cover design by W.H. Chong. The Wax Lyrical: 'By the Book' by Ramona Koval. Leading up to last Christmas I was gratified to see people go up to bookshop counters clutching copies of Koval's By the Book. Books about reading books, a book subtitled: A Reader's Guide to Life. That's as bookish as booklovers get. Ramona Koval’s By the Book. One thought was to do a metabook cover, like Penguin by Design. But I had been working on Geordie Williamson's The Burning Library. There is this passage in the book:.
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Blurb Vehicle: High Seas, High Culture: 'The Voyage' by Murray Bail
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Book cover design by W.H. Chong. High Seas, High Culture: 'The Voyage' by Murray Bail. What does high culture look like? We've heard the sound of music, but how does it look. A: Not like life at the supermarket.). Frank Delage, piano manufacturer from Sydney, travels to Vienna, a city immersed in music, to present the Delage concert grand. He hopes to impress with its technical precision, its improvement on the old pianos of Europe. How could he not know his piano is all wrong for Vienna? The publisher l...
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Blurb Vehicle: A Cruel Bouquet: 'The Commandant' by Jessica Anderson
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Book cover design by W.H. Chong. A Cruel Bouquet: 'The Commandant' by Jessica Anderson. The surreal (previous post) reminds me of the image which ended up on Jessica Anderson's The Commandant. Part of Text Classics. A series I have been working on over the last 18 months, it was by an author I was barely aware of, though I knew the famous title of another novel of hers, Tirra Lirra by the River. Is an unforgettable tale of power, duty and humanity.". My first attempt: I combined a banana symbolising Quee...
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Blurb Vehicle: September 2010
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Book cover design by W.H. Chong. The road less taken, and overtaken. There seem to be inevitable affinities with certain book jackets. Here is a cover I did for Garry Disher's Wyatt. A return of his eponymous anti-hero after ten years absence (the Wyatt series is excellent crime). I shot the photo in a dark and narrow place of my acquaintance. Earlier this month, Wyatt. Won the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction. We eventually settled on an image by Bill Henson (his very slow site. In my highly biase...
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Blurb Vehicle: Tree, bark, paper, novel: 'The Pages' by Murray Bail
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Book cover design by W.H. Chong. Tree, bark, paper, novel: 'The Pages' by Murray Bail. An author 's last two novels, with two-word titles, have only five letters difference: The Voyage. 8211; The Pages. The cover of Murray Bail's 2012 novel, The Voyage. Has a piano lid which evokes sailing. His novel before, The Pages. 2008), has the bark of a gum tree, with lettering on it, as if on paper. Word pictures – one is one plus one is two. Here is the demi hardback of The Pages. Here is the UK edition cover, k...
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Blurb Vehicle: The Domestic Surreal: 'Wifework' by Susan Maushart
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Book cover design by W.H. Chong. The Domestic Surreal: 'Wifework' by Susan Maushart. We went to an exhibition. Of Louise Bourgeois' remarkable late works, made in her 90s – fabric sculptures, paperworks and a room-spanning metal spider crouching over a cage. I stopped at a piece titled Femme Maison. 2001), on a theme. It made me think for the first time in ages of a book I designed in 2002: Wifework. A polemical thesis by Susan Maushart, then a popular columnist on the Australian. 8211; Wifework.". I hav...
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Blurb Vehicle: An author you can love
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Book cover design by W.H. Chong. An author you can love. Click on the image to enlarge. The kind of author a designer wishes for. I have just done a jacket for a debut author, SJ Watson, who lives in Britain. Text, where I work, seem to have produced the first cover for the book, which will be published in 20 languages(! Having worked in the NHS for fifteen years, he can't quite get used to being real author yet. In his blog. What if it looked like the kind of book I wouldn't look twice at? Thanks for th...
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stuff we love - Fisheye Design | Fisheye Design
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Enjoy the fisheye difference. Posted by Fisheye Design. On Aug 17, 2011 in the blog. Check out the links du jour below. Sandy Cull’s thought-provoking and entertaining blog on the trials and tribulations of being a book designer. The book versus the iPad or Kindle! Are books still relevant? Can the iPad and the Kindle replace the printed book? Should we feel sadness or excitement at the rate of change in the publishing industry? Wwwabc.net.au/tv/firsttuesday/s3219358.htm. The Ship Song Project.
