I looove the new cover of Two Old Twitchers: a cuckoo in the nest

Have you ever sent something out to the big wide world and wished you could pull it back and make it a little different?

I had that with the original cover of the first Twitchers book. We'd agreed on a stylistic typographical approach and Mik's a big fan of white space. But it always felt lacking in some way to me.

When I was designing the art for some of the web material you'll see popping up more and more soon (especially on the official Twitchers site) I came to love the green vector image style and finally Mik suggested I just bite the bullet and re-design the book cover in time for the print release this summer in the US/UK.


The new cover is full of colour and feels more alive than the first one. The version shown here is a smaller sample taken from the new iPad cover, re-designed for the new high resolution retina display. Compare that with the original version (left.)

One of the big differences is that the original didn't show the Two Old Twitchers, Tom and Charles. Instead, I used a stylized cuckoo. My idea was to theme each book cover with the bird used in each title.

I think the Two Old Twitchers are better.

Which do you prefer?

Regards,

Drew