Apple and Design tips and Mac and Opinon and critiques and design Sue Campbell on 11 Jun 2010
Okay Apple, now I am mad.I just previewed the Adobe product Flash Catalyst. I can understand now why they were so upset when you invited them to leave off developing for the iPhone and iPad. I and many thousands of other DESIGNERS (i.e. not DEVELOPERS) have been waiting patiently for a product which would allow [...]
Personal News and Photoshop tips and art and bookcovers Sue Campbell on 10 May 2010
Where book cover design is concerned, the imagery has traditionally come from paintings, or illustrations. By the middle of last century more and more covers used photography. Today it’s anything goes, with some genres leaning more toward illustration and some more toward photos, and some with no imagery at all.
I bemoan the fact that I [...]
Nanowrimo and art and bookcover and bookcovers and books and color and covers and critiques and design and fiction and publishing Sue Campbell on 08 Feb 2010
The third book in the cover contest gets posted today! Which one do you pick?
Nanowrimo and art and bookcover and bookcovers and color and covers and critiques and design and new work and writing Sue Campbell on 03 Feb 2010
First let me apologize once again for how long it’s taken me to get these underway. All kinds of things just conspired against me having any time to work on them. Paying work has to come first, because, this is my job after all. Writing and holding contests are just my hobby! So here goes.
These [...]
Design tips and Mac and art and bookcover and bookcovers and books and color and covers and critiques and design and inspiring and interview and marketing and publishing Sue Campbell on 15 Jan 2010
OK, no sponsors. It’s just me.
I know that my three contest winners are waiting anxiously for their covers. And um… I haven’t had much time to devote to them yet. I’m at the research and “noodling” stage. Next comes “doodling,” but we mustn’t short change the noodle part. Though there’s nothing concrete to show for [...]
inspiring and websites of note and writing Sue Campbell on 12 Jan 2010
This is an idea generating, stimulating online tool that anyone can use to find that elusive “right” word. Visuwords presents words, their meanings, synonyms, homonyms, etc, in an intuitive and colorful interface. It’s much deeper than it looks at first glance.
“Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce [...]
Nanowrimo and bookcover and bookcovers and covers and design and fiction and publishing Sue Campbell on 02 Jan 2010
Nanowrimo Cover Contest Winners Announced!
art and books and design and inspiring Sue Campbell on 16 Dec 2009
This just leaves me speechless. I can’t decide if it’s really cut paper, stop-motion animation or if it’s CG. If it is real then wow. Just wow. If it is CG, it’s still pretty impressive.
Opinon and art and bookcover and bookcovers and color and covers and design and marketing and new work Sue Campbell on 04 Sep 2009
A new memoir, A New Day by Dora Barilla, has just been published by Stephens press. Here is the winning cover, by yours truly (of course).
But how did we get to this cover? This wasn’t the initial direction that the author and publisher wanted for this powerfully written story of one firefighter’s terrible accident, [...]
books and news and publishing and writing Sue Campbell on 02 Apr 2009
I’m talking about paper magazines here. Little ones with not a big readership. I don’t see Vogue or Cosmo doing this anytime soon. We’ve all seen the booksurge of POD books (pun intended) in recent years, but to me, this is a new twist. A site called MagCloud offers a POD model similar to Amazon’s [...]
