Sketches: Inside the Changing Circus

This is what comes of procrastination. No, really — I had something else I put off doing this morning, and I did this, instead.


It sprang fully-formed from the sketch, more or less...


The title is set in a big ol' slab serif face, because I wanted to evoke the wood type I might expect to see on a circus poster — but I wanted it to appear more modern, not quite so literal. That said, though, I had been thinking that the cover might look more like a traditional poster — black or red type on a light paper background, something like that — but I felt that the dark background would hold the photographs better.

I decided to have the three "rings" overlap a bit, with the hope that it might allow the circles to be slightly larger. Putting photos into a circular frame, sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't, but it can be a real challenge to try to find photos to fit odd shapes like the circles at the edges. That list of numbers, on the right, those are notes on the photos I thought might work best. (I still have to replace one of them on the back cover, at the request of the Author.)