Pulled From My Files #20: TALOS OF THE WILDERNESS SEA

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Here is a tight pencil layout for a one-shot logo I did in 1987. It’s a sword and sorcery fantasy book I think, though I haven’t seen it in decades, and that looks like the direction I was going in this design, perhaps emulating fantasy paperback logos or even epic movie logos. I’m not sure why I thought the shading lines in the deep telescoping behind the letters was a good idea, and the overlap of the L on the O bothers me now. The entire logo seems too tall as well, but logos were often taller then.

I don’t have a copy of the finished logo, but here it is on the cover. I probably hadn’t seen the cover art when I designed the logo. If I had I think I would have made it wider and less tall, and avoided the curve so it could be placed completely in the background and off the woman’s head. It was only used this once time, and perhaps it’s just as well!