In my loopiness I took Leslie’s joking about Fabio seriously and ending up doing a photoshop painting of Fabio to put on my book. I was seriously excited about it. I put rectangles of Fabio on the title page and table of contents. I used his whole portrait for the cover. He was grand and glorious, but ultimately he did not work out in the way that I anticipated. I ended up liking my table of contents waaaay more without him. I wanted him on the cover because my portrait was pretty great, but that really ruined the cohesion of the pieces. I decided to can him (much to the relief of my classmates) and ended up using the white and grey squares of the “transparent background” setting on photoshop. I was inspired by Fabio’s flowing mane and ending up free handing some blue lines that flowed across my book cover. I duplicated the blue lines for the title page and table of contents. I kept it super simple and I really liked the results. The font I used was futurist fixed width, which is one of my favourite free fonts from dafont.com.
I am beyond stoked to get my book back from lulu. I think this is definitely going to be something I keep around long after class has ended.
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