faber finds borders posted 25 July 2008
I actually did this back in September 07, but only recently found that the project is live. It’s all quite complex. Darren Wall from Faber books in the UK contacted me about this new project that they were doing creating one-off, on-demand books (see below). For this they were going to have a computer program generate unique covers based on border patterns that I would make.
The borders needed to go with a custom font designed by Michael C. Place, and although each would be different, they needed to have fairly distinct personalities for 4 categories: arts, fiction, children’s and non-fiction.
So this is what I provided, attempting to create something that I thought a computer program might be able to differentiate, somehow, while randomly interpreting. I think.
There’s a great write-up about the process by Karsten Schmidt, who was involved in the programming.
The results are as follows … the next 4 pics show the variety …
The following 4 pics show the variety generated from just the curly borders …
And then some from the angular borders …
More information on the books, and many more borders and books are viewable at http://faberfinds.co.uk/.
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