AtD cover

[David Kipen]

Do we agree with Dave that it's "an actual
photo" of a dust jacket, and not a trompe l'oleil (sp?) flat image with
shadows to fool us into seeing the "curve @ spine, slight indentation @
lower left hand corner"?

All finest,
David


On 9/7/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> AND it's visibly a dust jacket (note curve @ spine,
> slight indnetation @ lower left hand corner--an actual
> photo [if it's safe to presume that anymore], not even
> simply the graphic design file), whereas, in my
> experience, at least, yr avg ARC is pbk (though I
> can't recall the case with M&D).  Now that seal ...
>
> --- David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I like it.  At first I only saw one shadow in
> > something like a Times Roman type.  The front type
> > is a more more "modern" sans seriph.  The one at
> > the back is a seriph type, but a lighter face,
> > and a bit hard to see.  And as if the front type
> > had a light casting those shadows on planes behind,
> > each shadow gets larger than the one in front of
> > it. Very subtle and nice.
>
> Manly, yes, but I like it, too ...
>
> > But what is that seal in the lower left?
>
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