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| From | moteeko@telerama.com |
| Subject | Startling Resemblances... |
| Date | Thu, 24 Jun 2004 08:36:15 -0400 (EDT) |
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I think the "Startling
> Resemblance Award" goes out to the entire Rainbow Quartz catalog, or at least the dozen or so Contrast, Winnerys, Myracle Brah, and Lackloves
> titles that were on the merch table at IPO Chicago's Rainbow Quartz Night. The cover artwork of *all of them* looks too much alike for it to be a co-inky-dink -- particularly in terms of color selection.
>
I've noticed that as well. It seems like a lot of
folks are going for the "royalty-free photo effect"
look these days. I wonder how much input the
bands have on these?
For the Lackloves cover I did for the Endora's Box
CD, Mike and I had a few conversations about
concepts. At first, he was leaning toward a mod
look, then decided on the space theme. Heh
heh...thank you NASA for all those online photos...
When I was doing work for Get Hip, Gregg wanted
to reference 60's covers, and if the art had any
hint of "computer graphics," out it went. It
actually took a while to get him to accept
electronic files back then. He wanted "real
mechanicals." I don't miss cutting all that
rubylith....
Speaking of lost techniques, check out the M-80's
cover on my website (www.telerama.com/
~moteeko). The color work on that cover was done
by laying tracing paper over the artwork and hand
shading - by pencil - the screen values for the
colors. I had a Letraset grayscale chart in front of
me for reference and would sketch in grays on
each of the CMYK overlays - 30% cyan, 50%
magenta, etc. The the four sheets of tracing paper
with all the grey spots were shot as halftones with
corresponding screen angles for four color
process. The only downside to theis was that we
had no idea how the color was going to work until
the proof came back...still beat the heck out of
cutting rubylith...
Greg, who works on a Mac, which is situated above
a light table. Sometimes, ya STILL gotta do a
paste-up...
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