Your cover ideas please.

[Aethelred 0]

Addition by Chris Perkins:

Using Aethelred' fabulous cover idea, this is now the forum to submit designs for the front cover. It should preferrably have a white background to keep ink costs down, and should perhaps resemble the previous covers (although I agree they were awful) so that the existing readership will know what it is.

Apart from those rough guidelines, the sky's the limit. This forum is just for putting ideas across....If you want to actually produce a proper 'working' cover, you should be able to send me all the fonts used (if I don't have them already), and the images have to be 300dpi.

Over to the original Aethelred post:

You'll want something that jumps off the shelf at the bookshop! I am no graphic designer, not by a long shot, but here is a concept:

Note that it has your web address on the cover and that it only has one coin pictured. The 2004 edition does not make good use of color, the photos are dreadful at best and the overall design is a case study in boring!

[Chris Perkins 223]

That's a great cover Dead King, but I want to try to keep the price well below £8.00, and I'm not sure how much a colour cover would add to the printing costs. Of course, in an ideal world I'd love a colour cover, and I'll certainly look into it.

The 'The choice of dealers and collectors since 1973' has to go! Sounds way to yank and makes me want to puke

[Aethelred 0]

The 'The choice of dealers and collectors since 1973' has to go! Sounds way to yank and makes me want to puke

I'll give that much!

[Chris Perkins 223]

This is just a post to bring this forum to the top of the list again!

[Master Jmd 50]

This is just a post to bring this forum to the top of the list again!

spamming chris?!

[Emperor Oli 0]

I'll photoshop something later - I have a few ideas but I don't know whether they would look right on a coin book!

[Sylvester 15]

I'll photoshop something later - I have a few ideas but I don't know whether they would look right on a coin book!

I think we've got to have a Gothic on the front cover don't you... nothing like an attention catching coin.

[Master Jmd 50]

a nice 1935 farthing in BU?

[Half Penny Jon 0]

How about a nice 1903 BU GEM half penny?! All joking aside, a beutifully UNC coin will have to be on the cover devoid of surface marks or pitting to attract the numismatic eye.

[Chris Perkins 223]

I heard from RJ Marles today, he asked if I wanted him to do the 2005 as usual and suggested he put the new Four Minute Mile 50p, The Fourth Bridge £1, and the Steam Loco £2 on the fornt cover!! I politely decilned and just asked for his price data.

I know that it for some reason has been a tradition to feature the latest coins on the front cover in recent years, but for gods sake, they look poo compared to some of the older designs, and frankly who really wants to know what the new coins are worth, when it's already fresh in their memory what they paid for them.

I think quality older coins are what's needed on the front cover, doesn't have to be anything that valuable, just a nice old BU something.

[Sylvester 15]

Feel free to use the obverse of my Florin, if the picture is good enough...

http://www.coinpeople.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5227

[Sylvester 15]

I think the best coins to get for eye appeal... are;

George III Cartwheel coinage obverses, Gothic stuff and the reverse of Edward VII florins.

[Emperor Oli 0]

Exactly what I'm doing minus the Cartwheel! It should be finished soon and it won't be that spectacualr owing to the brief from Chris!

Edit: No, it's totally crap so I won't even bother submitting it

Edited July 5, 2004 by Emperor Oli

[Aethelred 0]

Have a look at this one Chris:

[Chris Perkins 223]

That's certainly 3,000,000 times better than the current cover!

[Half Penny Jon 0]

It looks appealing but it is a bit too 'in your face' I think which would discourage buyers.

[Aethelred 0]

It looks appealing but it is a bit too 'in your face' I think which would discourage buyers.

How should I change it?

[Half Penny Jon 0]

Make the colours a bit less bold (light or barkish blue) the layout is very good mind you!

[Half Penny Jon 0]

Also, the 'prices for all coins' is incorrect, it only lists coins from crowns to quarter farthings from 1820 onwards.

[Aethelred 0]

Make the colours a bit less bold (light or barkish blue) the layout is very good mind you!

One think I should warn you all about is that I am colorblind! When I do something like this and it comes off garish, that is why!

[Sylvester 15]

Change it to prices for all non-gold coins. That should cover it.

I think the writing should be darker to contrast more with the background. Actualy don't change that yet, leave all the writing color as it is but...

Change the red for Dark blue... See what it looks like.

(i was going to say dark green, but i guessed it might be a red/green thing)

[Chris Perkins 223]

Like your Led Zep signature Aethelred, one of my most favourite bands.

[Aethelred 0]

Led Zeppelin never gets old to me Chris, I could listen to 1-4 endlessly and never get sick of them!

See if this concept for acover works better:

[Half Penny Jon 0]

Much better!

[Sylvester 15]

It looks better to me, more consistent with fewer colours...

Next years could be green, year after red, then purple, orange, reddish-brown...

Consistency but with some variance from year to year that's the key. I personally hate the way some books totally change their cover layout every year so that if you have them on the shelf together they just look totally out of place together.