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| Camo Girl by Kekla Magoon (Aladdin, 2011) |
Marketing wants a face on the cover.
Sigh.
You know faces work, insofar as they appeal to your target audience. We're all drawn to faces. But gads, who needs another cover with a stock photo of some model's face? You want to be original.
Kekla Magoon's Camo Girl features a character suffering from vitiligo, a skin pigmentation condition which gives her a blotchy appearance. So, what with image issues in the novel, a face was a natural choice. But this designer cleverly used graphics filters to create the polarized effect on this cover.
Below, more original treatments for the common face:
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| Dark Parties by Sara Grant (Little, Brown, August 2011) |
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| Throat by R.A. Nelson (Knopf, 2011) |
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| Delirium by Lauren Oliver (HarperTeen, 2011) |
I love it when it when faces are displayed differently, like in these covers. The Dark Parties cover is creeptastic!
ReplyDeleteYeah!--I wish I had been able to get an actual copy of Dark Parties so that I could better describe the kind of a screen thing across the image. I tried to magnify the jpeg to see if the screen might actually be tiny repeated words or symbols, but I think it's just a pattern. Still, it's like gauze or netting.
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