Monday, January 11, 2010

Quiet Apocalypse :: Zeitoun

tomer :: Entertainment Weekly selected Dave Egger's Zeitoun as their best book of the year. the challenge was to keep the tone subdued-- like a mute apocalypse, the sound of a scream heard underwater. art directed by Michael Schnaidt.

12 comments:

  1. Beautiful... reminds me of a lot of ukioe prints I saw in Kyoto. I really like the Life of Pi poster, too--saw that on your site. But that scene felt a little less "angry" to me when I read it in the print. Thoughts on how you came up with it? Curious. Cheers, DK

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  2. you've got really great stuff here, love your sense of lighting

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  3. Beautiful choice of color, I really like the fact that you cant see his face at all. nomnomnom

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  4. Splendid illustration!

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  5. beautiful! love the choice of zooming out to concentrate more on the environment. Totally brings more to it!

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  6. Incredible as always, Tomer. Loving the cool vs warm and the gradient on the water surface suggesting depth. Your color choices are consistently unique and interesting. Bravo!

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  7. sick sick sick sick sick. Terrific exploration of composition in those sketches too!

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  8. Anonymous9:11 AM

    you are a thumbnail machine. i love it

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  9. Fantastic artwork, and fantastic thumbnails!

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  10. Wow, you really do a lot of prelim work. How many thumbs do you usually show the client? Great piece as always!!!

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