another maladies

the very beginning of number three

[the model]

...and some more

A new direction for midnight's children

After conferring with Ramon and Gen, I agreed that the previous mockups for M's C had the wrong feeling--too textile-y, not simple, clean, or pop-y enough.
So here is the new direction:

new mock ups for second book

Having discovered Arundhati Roy's other books are non-fiction, I set about trying to find another couple Indian novels that would pair nicely with The God of Small Things. I decided on Midnight's Children and Interpreter of Maladies. Here are the first mock ups for Midnight's Children, which try to keep the pop-art, (60's) feeling of the paper star cover from TGOST. I still have a few other images I'm gonna play with, but many of them could work for Midnight's Children as well.

another illustration