The Last Days Of The Lacuna Cabal

Lino print on handmade paper

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I liked it and the win was deserved, I also liked a lot of the others, especially the one by K. Diestel.

Very nice.

Utterly diverse reaction ..just goes to show ..one man's meat etc.... one panels winner,..another panels loser.- It's all totally subjective, ..not a question of merit at all.. I can see why some people are unhappy at panels choice , but you would have some unhappy people, whichever entry had won. You don't have to be the best...just the luckiest.

It is a very nice piece of art work but, upon accidentally stumbling across this I must say that the thought crossed my mind that some one had copied anothers work. The rolling sea being one of the main aspects and also the color scheme but hey...I am sure the other artist will not mind :)

I saw a post here that goes "seen better from a five year old to be honest." WHO SAYS A 5 YEAR OLD CANT MAKE GOOD ART. AND MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE GOT THIS 5 YEAR OLD TO COMPETE.

Almost every work of art in todays context is influenced or appropriated from so many histories, people, collaborations, movements. To attack this particular piece for lack of originality is quite childish. Every entry that I have seen here has its origins somewhere in the past. Art is not a competition in its true sense, but since resources are limited we choose to compete. So learn to move on. I liked the work. Congratulations Becca.

IS THIS A WINNER !!! ??

good composition - i like your art.

marisa perhaps you should have entered also, it seems like that lino just does waves.

Congratulations Becca @}---

Yay! I am a fellow lino-gal and I'm glad lino is the winner. Woo to the sweet musty smell of linseed oil and the sharp Japanese blades! Am very concerned about the criticisms, HEY! DO WHAT I DO - ACCEPT THAT YOU HAVE LOST AND KEEP YOUR UNCONSTRUCTIVE COMMENTS TO YOURSELF!

FRAUD -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eraser

It's just Chick-lit anyhow! Obsolescence occurs very early.

A Safe Cover -- Is this really meant to be a selling point for cutting-edge literature. I'd think about it Sean Dixon. Does one really want to blend in with the blandness that is already there...focus groups...and safe marketing. Edgy ...I think not!

I meant over all a true artist.

Well Marty through out the contest you have been the moral supporter of everyone. You are to the other extreme. I believe the point here was too similar, and this brings the art work into a gray area. The brief called for somehing "original". I am personnaly happy that a real artist has won. But I have seen some real original art works that were horrible (mine could be one of them) and also some that were actualy good originals and inspiring. But, nevertheless, congrats to Becca who is an artist over all.

I looked at the eraserhead album cover. How silly it doesn't look like this cover at all other than being in black and white with a red title and having some wave forms. Why not be delighted that this cover was a winner? Instead of accusing the designer of copying someone else?

seen better from a five year old to be honest.

it's very nice but there's no saily boats in the extracts, they're all surely ferries and big boats so it's not really true to the story is it?

Stanley Donwood's "Cnut" is clearly a different work then this. His lines are masculine and his waves fold with more tension due to the sharper angles and pointed focused points adjacent to the figure. This work on the other hand has a more innocent and feminine feel -- your eyes are drawn toward the boat and then the sun causing you to feel the brownian motion which the waves create. As such Becca's work reflects a more subtle and softer "coming of age theme" making it quite different from "Cnut". Clearly both pieces are unique and each more suited to its application. ( The album cover art referred to can be viewed presently www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002689108)

Congratulations Becca. It's clean, simple & raw. Steinberg-ish. I checked out more of your work and I think it's charming.

Please keep all comments useful and scencere. Thank you.

Absolutely lovely.

Congratulations for winning! I look forward to seeing the book on the shelves. The judges made a good choice.

this says more about the judges than anything else -Becca was probably the last person who thought she would win and good luck to her and I hope she enjoys the cash but I do not think Sean Dixons book will be noticed on the shelves.

i guess it's true that simplicity usually works best

Targetted market bracket of mid thirty and up.

It is a calm final note to an exciting competition. Certainly some great opportunities were missed.

Very original for a design dated 2 years, coming from a publishing house such as that - this it is normal. For the more creative artists during this competition, do not worry you have your luck in 2 years

I think that the winner is to be found again...

It's good. It is original and it does exatly what it's supposed to do which is make me want to read the book. Visual artists seem to be very bitter judging by some of these comments.

what a terrible boring and old fashion choice!! ... if this is the result, what is the reason for the contest? just a clever pr.!

If similar is considered good enough and original Lee Motley has jsut signed away her rights.

The Judges can argue that these are sand dunes and the camels pulling the jet engine sailing boat through the Iraqis desert can not be observed since they are behind that one big sand dune. Or the boat is symbolic creative approach to a mirage representing water.

So judges, please lets see who is behind door number three.

Not oriiiiiiiiiiiiiigiiiiiiiiiiinaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllll. period.

...booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooring !

Let's not go over the top.It's just ok.Nothing more than that.

Just quoting: "The winning design will get across the ESSENCE of the book to a POTENTIAL READER, using CREATIVE and INNOVATIVE DESIGN to help the book make an IMPACT on the shelves. The book is completely ORIGINAL so we are looking for a cover that will MIRROR THAT ORIGINALITY." ...????

Ignorance is a bliss.

Wow this work is now so controversial people have resorted to counting the lines in it to compare it with another artists! Brilliant. Nothing like a bit of a squabble over some art! Come on people, how stupid do you think Becca is? Do you really think she'd conciously copy someone elses work and enter it into a high-profile, international competition? You'll probably say yes now won't you? Says something about you lot I think...

Still, it is not an original work as the brief was looking for. That might be spliting hairs. But the similarities are more than just coincidents, each wave has approx. the same number of lines, colors etc. I hope Becca stands as the winner, but in reality I like the work because it reminds me of a better designer, not Becca. And I like this one much more of some other ones from the short list.

Hooray for some sense at last! Thanks Radiohead Fan for your words of sanity!

It's only plagiarism if you use the exact same image (or whatever) and pass it off as your own. This design is only similar. By these idiots thinking, anyone who paints in a similar style to Rembrant is plagiarising his work! artists are always taking inspiration from one another, and often several people develop the same style at the same time (the impressionists, the pre-raphaelites, the cubists- need i go on?) Give it a rest you sore losers! This artist may have developed her style before Stanley Donwood- who knows! Well done Becca this is great =)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eraser

http://rewriteablecontent.blogspot.com/2006/05/story-behind-eraser-cover-art.html

Congratulations, this work is muchmore convincing then the previous "winner".

Congrats Becca,your cover has been on my 4shortlist out of 20 finnalists and I´m glad to see you on the top,especially cause I intend to buy this book. I think your cover stand out pretty well(and is a ''shining star'' in compare with the first one,sorry to say).Was a big surprise to see the change and even more,to see that this time the judges feel the need to adress few words to the world and winner:))A minimum sense of etiquette is telling me that in ocasions like this,they should have done it from the begining(with the other winner as well)......Well,shall we expect another rabbit from the hat?Hope this cover will stay the winner.The sursprises are pooring here like river:someone should write a book about,can be really a hot subject!!Congrats Becca,once again!

eyecatching???????

I hate commenting on things but some people have been so unnecessarily rude about your work! (and others too) It's clearly contemporary and would certainly be eye catching in the shops. You obviously have a flair for design and i do like the way you printed the text the same as the image. Congratulations Becca, you deserve it for putting up with these Luddites.

wow, i can't believe people are comparing this to the eraser! just using the same colors is no ground for plagiarism surely?! As I recall the eraser was darker and a lot more graphic than this one- they are both linoprints of water though, so i guess they would be pretty similar. I like it- sorry about the rude people. T.

Whoever buys a book with this cover will support................ok I got it.

As a britain citizen I demand an arrest.

I do not know how you come up with these funny things. How about tombling judges statues as approaching, or scissor hands writers or......ohh the circus has mentioned before.

Then why not the bombing towers

Lets bring on the blues, or the shoes. I stand.

Britain must be a good place to do art, I would have been dogs meat just by saying anything.

As a friend to Emmy's last call before deciding to never to come back. It is time for the judges to retire.

We all need a new deadline

Lets pay the 15 minute fames and move on, I say.

I still like the concept of the competition, as long it does not hurt the pockets of the professional designers. There is a lot to be learned. But Saatchi is at something good.

Lets not all forget that the competitors had also the responsibility of letting the selectors and the judges know if they have not followed the rules prior to any so called final judgment. I am not saying this to give some slack on the expert selectors or judges.

This competition has become a circus, caused by so called expert selectors and judges of blind taste and knowledge.

http://rewriteablecontent.blogspot.com/2006/05/story-behind-eraser-cover-art.html

This is plagiarism

I ignore who is the illustrator of the album Thom Yorke - "The Eraser", but that this can lodge a complaint, because its similar!!! The design is even the red color! The judges pass to the third competitor!

Funny, Yes, it is very similar to the waves on the album, even the same color is used for the sun as is used on the albums label.

Anyone seen the artwork for Thom Yorke's solo album "The Eraser"? Very similar. Nice enough idea though.

I honestly have seen better book covers (selected runner ups) On the page. This is horrible.

Congratulations Becca. The fact that your work was chosen for the cover by a panel of judges who looked through many entries is even more important than the monetary award. For me it seems that there is a subtle and organically feminine nature in your water textures and the target textures. It would have also have been interesting to read some comments from the jurists regarding what they felt when selecting your work. It is always best when jurists tell artists what worked for them.

I'm so pleased this one is the winner

It would have been nice if the third and fourth would have been also announced. As long as a design is very strong I do not believe any artists would have complained about breaking rules. We break them on a daily basis at work.

its a nice cover...congratulations . But the terms of competition were somehow not very clear expressed. Therefor some posted more than one design in the beginning of the competition, and had no chance to delate it /or some later (The later by saatchi posted e-mail address for to correct writing-errors didn't answer... ), when they recognized, that that isn' t allowed........But its not to change, only wanted to mention it.

Cool simple very good for a book cover

Not hot but warmer congrats, a better choice than the prior from the short list selected for the judges. A designer can work with the concept presented for creating a hard cover with some minor but essential changes.

Becca its really brilliant, the boat is brilliant and the red isnt cold.

Nice stuff. I'd choose a different 'red' though, it's a bit cold.

I agree - the excerpts mentioned boats, but not sail boats - a silly mistake - the boat should be the type discussed in the book - the idea is to illustrate the book inside, n'est pas?

Biblical style with modernized sailing boat - this style of wave is usually used in biblical illustration s of Noahs ark.

Boats can have engines AND sails you know- yachts for example... great image

Best solution for this project.

Oh and i also don't think it matters what kind of boat it is if the image is strong.

Love this- great simplicity and texture. Would really stand out to me on the shelves. I don't think this image has anything to do with a lagoon, i think it's to do with the part of the book where they go off in the boats... i could be wrong, but there aren't often waves on a lagoon are there?

Good handmade work - love it.

Wondering what Sean Dixon himself thinks about the quality of 20 books shortlist... This book was published last year in Canada under the title: The Girls Who Saw Everything ( Coach House Books) basing a lot to The Epic of Gilgamesh. Also: Lacuna: means ' empty space' or missing part in a manuscript etc, it might not mean same as Lagoon.

Sailing boat comment stands. But I like the graphs.

I like the texure and simplicity of this one.I think a classical boat print- shadow,look better than a steamy one shape for this concept:I see it as a good compromise in order to give a ''modern-colonial'' sense to the whole composition

nice design but it's interesting that 4 of these final 20 feature sailing boats and not the kind of boats indicated in the excerpts which seem to be bigger boats with engines - have I missed something?

It is necessary time for the judges to retire!! How to choose these 20 book covers. Other participants were much better, certainly this competition is big one joke!

Better than others,here the simplicity make sense,is one of my few favs

just awful

This is so good! I love the linework!

Nice cover, love the simplicity and the minimal colour

love love love this one. too bad none of the boats in the book are sailboats. easy to fix tho....