This is such an obvious, yet brilliant idea (via Beth's blog). Meredith Farkas had a book coming out (social software in libraries), and rather than have some dull cover foisted upon her by the publishers from their standard stock of photos, she set up a competition in Flickr. The winners got - a free copy of the book! While I'm sure it's a good book, it's obvious that the prize wasn't the motivation for entering, people just really enjoyed the chance to be creative. The pool can be found here. Below are a couple of my favourites:
And all are better than the publisher generated cover of my book:
Lazy graphic designers beware...
I loved the spaceship one too, but it was released with an "all rights reserved" license - so i didn't blog it -- I had to look at the pool and select the ones that were "by" liceneses that I liked best. Nice to discover your blog!
Posted by: Beth Kanter | 08/05/2007 at 02:50 AM