Fake Book Covers

Pot Boilers and Sci Fi - $5 ea or 3 for $12

Discerning stories for the Female of the house.

Thrillers and Detective - Buy One get one Free.



Made by me for fun.

Fake Albums are great but I've always fancied getting my teeth into a book...

Based on the last Facebook set up here's some links I've put together:

To design an FBC (Fake Book Cover)

1 - Go to The name Generator - http://www.thenamegenerator.com/ and click “Generate New Name” – this will be the name of your Author.

2 - Go to the "Random Title Generator" - http://mdbenoit.com/rtg.htm and click “Give me Some Titles” - choose a title for your book.

3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days” http://flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/ choose an image to suit or hit “reload” until inspiration hits – this will be your cover image.

4 - Use Photoshop or similar to put it all together. For inspiration – go here: http://www.bookcoverarchive.com/.

I'll post some examples soon:

in the meantime - enjoy this little cut-up I made:

"It's an outrage!"

Darn that Meme

Occasionally a meme comes along that takes you by the hoodangers and gives them a twirl.

The whole "create a fake album" has me hooked. It's so damn simple and great fun for nerdy designer types like myself.

the "rules" are these:

1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random... Read More”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to "Random quotations"

or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.

then you're supposed to tag people on facebook and get them to do it too but I ignore that bit...

Now - I hate hard and fast meme rules - especially when it comes to the third one - so my new version is "pick any image off that page" (why do so many flickr denizens take shots of flowers?)

Here's a compilation of the albums so far. Click for a bigger version.


*UPDATE 26 Feb*

Addicted? You betcha...

Fires

https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineDonations.asp

Hand of Amor

Sounds ominous doesn't it? It's not - it's what I've called my new typeface I created over at:

http://www.yourfonts.com/

An amazing site for a font nerd like myself. So much fun.

What if Sean Penn or Russell Crowe was your Dad...

... and they tried to tell Dad Jokes? - this was the idea behind this short series of films:



Check out the rest (including a special guest appearance of Emo Boy)

Cut Out Art

Artist Thomas Allen cuts out old paperback novels and creates incredible scenes that are reminiscent of the great films of the Noir genre.



More here

Or at the Foley Gallery