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Suffice to say, the Dune serializations were very popular, but the book was still rejected 23 times before it was picked up by a tiny publisher of mostly car manuals called Chilton Publishing.
If you’re interested Herbert’s biography Dreamer of Dune is really interesting (his background was political journalism, not fiction, and it shows). I’m not going to deviate from the art path here too much, because I’m a big Dune geek and we’ll be here for a year. It’s one of the few such works of which I’d like to have the original.” First Edition His December cover caught with tremendous power and beauty the “Dune mood” I struggled so hard to create. Frank Herbert loved Schoenherr’s art, and said “Frequently, I have to ask myself if the artist was actually illustrating the story his work accompanied. They may appeal to the same audience, but dealing with a masthead above an illustration is very different from dealing with title and author type that needs to go on top of an illustration. Now magazine covers and book covers are different animals. Keep an eye on that last cover illustration, because it’s about to pop back up in a second. The stories were serialized over time thru 9 issues, with Schoenherr doing the covers and interior illustrations. John Schoenherr was commissioned on Aug(great backstory on the blog kept by his son Ian Schoenherr here ) to create images for the covers and interiors for “Dune World” 1, 2, and 3. The stories that would become Dune were first serialized in Analog Magazine starting in December 1963. Now, on to the book versions! Pre-Book History But this is a SciFi Fantasy Art blog and it just so happens that the new Dune trailer finally came out today, so we’re going to be looking at the last few decades of book cover design through the lens of Dune by Frank Herbert.įirst, enjoy this glorious trailer (and I can’t embed it but I actually recommend the launch video on twitter with director & cast where they show some of the art and development for extra geek points):įull disclosure: Dune is, not incidentally, one of (if not the) most important book series to me as a SFF fan and person in general.
There have been entire academic studies and books published on the design history of books like Lolita. Honestly the entire Penguin Classics imprint survives on this as an entire business model. One of my favorite ways to visualize how much book cover design has changed over the years is to track one classic book that tends to get redesigned every few years and see how the designs have evolved.
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The point is, I’ve spent my entire professional career in book covers, and I’ve absorbed/studied a lot of the history of book design.
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So my last 6 months of school I also worked full time. Martins Press was hiring a junior designer. I graduated with from the Graphic Design department of SVA 18 years ago, and I have been working in book covers for 18.5 years – the extra half-year I owe to James Victore, who kicked me out of his portfolio class after Christmas break in order to find a job, and Adam Wahler, another teacher who happened to know St.
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