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Nice review and comments on the Covered book from the ever wonderful Shindig Magazine on their Happening blog. “A great project and hell of a lot of fun. This is definitely a fine book to flick through when friends are over for a music session.” Read the full review at the Shindig blog; we’ll even forgive them for getting the url wrong!
“Covered” out now…
Stock of Covered has finally arrived. Everyone who pre-ordered via our online store has been sent their copies ahead of it reaching the shops. I also did a short slot on BBC Radio Sheffield about the book earlier in January. What a strange experience. Once admitted into the upstairs waiting area I was left for nearly twenty minutes gazing at faded prints of our local football teams (in better days) wondering if anyone knew I was there. They were running a radio special on back-ache, which was clearly more in tune with the listeners, so I was on air for about five minutes total (which included a record being played!) before being ushered out in time for the news. Lots of interest in the book from other media sources though, and it’ll be interesting to see what the reviewers make of it all.
Bleed!
Covered got held up a few more days when it was discovered that all my carefully prepared artwork had been converted to PDF, but in doing so I’d not clicked the “preserve bleed” option, so the printers could not proceed (when printers guillotine books down to finished size, they like a bit of overlap at the outside of the pages otherwise you risk getting white edges to your pictures). As it took me an hour to re-output then five hours to check and upload the files again, it’s a lesson I’ll not forget in a hurry! In the past I’ve used pre-set options so not had to worry about this small but important option. In the meantime, here are Deadline trying to look mean and Parallel Lines era Blondie-like!
Vinyl prints
Two limited edition prints inspired by vintage vinyl. These have been done by the designer of our Covered book. Click the image for details and the learn more about the works.
Covered covered in Belgian papers
Author Jan Bellekens has been grabbed for a story on the Covered book by the Gazet van Antwerpen (Antwerp Gazette), one of Belgium’s national papers. They interviewed him about the book and photographed him for the paper, as well as running a selection of whacky covers. Jan has also been featured in another local paper. Here’s a clip from the Antwerp feature; you can look at them in full on our site here.
Covered Flyers available
Anyone who fancies any A5 flyers for the Covered book let us know. We’re sending a wedge to the two main distributors but if any shops want some we’ve done extra. In the meantime, here are some worthy examples of people getting carried away by Saturday Night Fever.
Covered cover
This is the final cover spread for the Covered book. There is a page showing how the front cover developed from initial visual to the final design on the site, titled What’s In A Cover.
Covered desktop pattern
Easy On The Eye Books have designed a computer monitor desktop background pattern to be used on your Mac. It has 40 of the best copy covers, all based on famous rock and pop sleeves, and you can have fun seeing if your friends can spot them all.
The desktop image is optimised to work at a monitor resolution of 1280 X 1024 pixels, though it will work on smaller screens. You can download the image (file size 1.2MB) free using the link below (the image above is just a sample); once you’ve gone to the page, just drag the full-size image over to your existing desktop. Once it is on your hard-drive, use your System Preferences menu to go to the Desktop and Screensaver options and navigate to the saved image to use it. It’ll work on a PC but you’ll need to ask someone else how.
Note this is a desktop pattern which is there while your using your machine, NOT a screensaver. Once it’s up and running, feel free to send us a snapshot of it on site…
Click here for the file.
Covered! previewed in Word Magazine
A really nice full page preview for Jan’s book Covered! appears in the October 2011 edition of the UK monthly Word Magazine, which covers music, books, film and other aspects of popular culture. The decided just to take two well known album sleeves and feature a load of covers which have gone on to borrow the original ideas. I’ve added a scan of the page which you can see on the site here. This is the first of what looks like being a number of articles on the book, and it’s great to see people picking up on the theme. The book itself is at last in production, and we’ll have details of the Easy Shop up any day now for people with a conscience who have to order online but don’t want to support the activities of high-street destroying giants. Still can’t figure those Word magazine covers though, they just miss the mark on so many levels for me. I appreciate what they’re trying for and it’s nice to avoid the generic look so many magazines sport these days, but if you want to do that go and see what titles like Little White Lies are coming up with for their covers.
