Borgerlig skymning by Simon Fruelund came from printing house and Lethe förlag sent us this gorgeous picture 🙂
The cover looks very nice and we are very proud of this work.
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When somebody is looking and a very simple and minimalistic cover, he/she has NO idea, how long designing process can be. Sometimes pretty simple idea takes a lot of steps to arrive to.

Client: Five Spice Street is one of the most astonishing novels of the past twenty years. It’s a pretty … mystique book about a street in a chinese city, and a “Madame X” that no one knows what she’s like.
AD: Got your point, we’ll make some sketches …

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Hello my dear people,

Several weeks ago I received a copy of the book I had designed and was a bit disappointed and even a bit pissed off. I was prepared for everything but not for what I saw.

Nowadays publishing houses try to give their books more accent by adding various kinds of fancy effects as emboss, UV-varnish, foil.

Sometimes it works well, but most of the time it’s just spending money on a castle made of air. In some cases (soft covers) cool fancy effects on the front can even ruin the inside page and usually this page is used to put “about author” information on it.

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