I'm not quite sure what to write about this one. I really enjoyed designing this book jacket, also. There is a much-heralded and unconventional western film which I have been meaning to see, 'Johnny Guitar' (directed by Nicholas Ray). I like the sound of the title and wanted to do an Indian take on it, since the graphics that I am using for this jacket are Indian matchbox labels. I liked the vibrant colors in the graphics, and the strong diagonal line made by the title. I tried to make the color of the title line at least be analgous to some of the orange shades in the dancing woman's sari. I like the visible horizontal lines running through the maharajah's face.
If you have some spare reading time, you might like Jane Tompkins book "West of Everything." She was my dissertation director, and I remember that she was fond of "Johnny Guitar."
ReplyDeleteJohnny Sitar is a hoot. There's something interesting going on with the vertical lines. The linguist Charles Pierce had a class of signs he called "indexical" because they left the impress of a physical process (like a footprint on a beach). I think the horizontal lines function in the same way, as an index of the physical process used to produce them.