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Beautiful cover for the prequel to The Maltese Falcon. I'm guessing the inspiration comes from black and white thriller movie titles, like The 39 Steps. I wonder if this was completely digital or if some parts were photographed.
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Incidentally, the titles for The Maltese Falcon aren't too shabby either:
9 comments:
Beautiful! I think it's Chip Kidd's.
nope, Jason Booher.
Oops sorry. Still beautiful
Chip started working on this title and got nowhere with it. Jason took it over and did a fantastic job.
The idea to draw from old movie titles was actually Chip's. But he generously felt that I should get the sole design credit on the jacket for executing the idea. So there's definitely a bit of both of us here.
Did you read the novel?
Jason - this cover rocks. Nice highlighting on the edges of the the letters too.
good strong stuff, all of it
Good reeading this post
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