another illustration

Type Specimen Book Fifth Draft

after some minor changes,

mockups

The ideas below are what I'm working with, at least for the time being. Ideally, I'd like to pick one mock-up, or a combination of two and use it as a starting place. Eventually, it will be a template for the three-book series. All of the imagery below is inspired by motifs and themes from The God of Small Things, more and less directly.

• the moth is, quite directly, Pappachi’s moth
• the buttons are a simple illustration of kid-objects–the minor props preserved by our remembrance of things past. In the book, for example, Love in Tokyo hair elastics.
• the car is important as a marker of status and westernization; also it is a motif in the story and the setting for important narrative actions.
• the paper stars are not directly mentioned in the novel. However, they are a common sight in Kerala, especially in December. They are Christmas stars, and ready evidence of the large Christian population in the state. The Hindu/Christian split is a theme in TGOST.

My top contenders: picture # 23 from the March 4th post; the top mock-up from March 8th; and the mock-up from March 10th.

Another car-star mock up

Second round of book cover mock ups, part one

Book cover brainstorms

The first round of brainstorms, all revolving around the 'moth' idea. Very little consideration has been put into typography with these--it's all about the image--evidenced by the fact that the author's name is misspelled. Oops.