Archive for February, 2008
Coversourcing: Down to the wire
Well, I went and did it. I entered the contest to design the cover for Jeff Howe’s new book, Crowdsourcing. There are a number of fantastic entries, my favorites being AceJet170’s, Vitorious’, and skforlee’s. I just didn’t see any that really tied into the sub-title of the book: “How the power of the crowd is driving the future of business.” There’s so much in there between the lines … and the piece I grabbed hold of was directionality … the crowd driving business in a particular direction.
So, concept in hand, I went looking for good artwork or photography that embodied that idea. And one of my favorite haunts is Stock.xchng. There I found a photo by Sanja Gjenero, a.k.a. “lusi“, that seemed perfect. Great primary colors to make it pop and a crowd of ambiguous persons surrounding a compass. Fantastic!
A quick bit of Photoshop work and I had what I think is a pretty nice cover, though we’ll have to see what the wisdom of the crowd has to say about that.
Anyone interested in voting, go here to rate it and comment.
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