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Subject: [Leica] Book cover design or photo
From: john at mcmaster.co.uk (John McMaster)
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:50:00 +0000
References: <CAFT=JcD6RzX+sBh+DT4hegkJoUmW70uke-6Ae8ZOH6Tg1EXdpQ@mail.gmail.com>

The only round bottomed things we have in our kitchen are bain-maries for 
chocolate, I cannot think of any other hemisphere based items as they are of 
little use.  Maybe something with a hemispherical top inverted.....

john

-----Original Message-----
From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org] On 
Behalf Of Peter Cheyne via LUG
Sent: 12 April 2018 10:06
To: lug
Cc: Peter Cheyne
Subject: [Leica] Book cover design or photo

Dear LUGgers,

I've written a book that wants a cover. I have an idea, but can't find the 
materials to execute it. The book is academic, to be titled *Coleridge's 
Contemplative Philosophy*. My cover idea is of an image of one hemisphere, 
inverted, on top of another, i.e. a bowl facing upward, atop a bowl facing 
downward. Here are some rough sketches I made:

https://flic.kr/p/24ZJpyo

My initial thought was to find two matching hemispheres, and arrange them as 
in the sketches, photographed against a white backdrop, with a clean, 
modernist, minimalist aesthetic. Two hemispheric glass bowls, or iron ones, 
or brass, or some other material. But I can find no such things, so far.
(The concept, by the way, is of the higher, enlightened understanding turned 
upward, towards what Coleridge called reason, spirit, and ideas, with the 
lower hemisphere turned towards the things of the senses.)

Does anyone have access to such objects? If you could photograph them in a 
way suitable for a book cover, I could pay. Not a great deal, but around
$200 is possible. The publisher might possibly be able to match that too, so 
between $200 and $400 is possible. You'd also get a hardcover copy of the 
book. My previous was published by Oxford University Press, and I'm hoping 
this one will be too.

Also, if anyone here is a graphic designer, and thinks they could nicely 
execute a graphic image, rather than a photo, developed from the idea in my 
sketches, that would be an interesting option too.

Best wishes,

Peter

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