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The Digital Public Library of America amplifies the value of libraries as Americans’ most trusted sources of shared knowledge. They do this by proactively collaborating with partners in the field to accelerate innovative tools and ideas that empower and equip libraries to broaden digital access to information. Recovering The Classics is a crowdsourced collection of original book covers for some of the greatest works in the public domain, where anyone can contribute.
My name is Carl Perks and I'm a Design student at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. I'm graduating this semester and hope to start a freelance career as soon as I'm out of school.
My name is Carl Perks and I'm a Design student at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. I'm graduating this semester and hope to start a freelance career as soon as I'm out of school.
I found the covers generally circulated for Around the World in 80 days featuring a hot air balloon to be rather cliche. Furthermore, upon a rereading of the novel itself, I realized there was no portion of Fogg's adventure that contained a balloon at all! So I attempted to make a cover that was somewhat more modern by retaining some of the end-of-19th-century fonts and themes but tilting the alignment and flattening the illustration style. Wanting to steer clear from the hot air balloon, I illustrated the three actually used method of transportation in the book (the elephant, the train and the steam ship) and split them in ways that evoke the chaos of the journey and how plans where not adhered to along the way. Finally, I added the three main characters (Fogg, Passepartout and Aouda) as passengers on the boat, within the focal point of the cover. — Carl Perks
