{"id":279,"date":"2008-08-27T10:50:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T09:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/?p=279"},"modified":"2025-02-01T03:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:04:15","slug":"automatically-creating-book-cover-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/2008\/08\/27\/automatically-creating-book-cover-designs\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatically creating book cover designs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/postspectacular.com\/process\/20080711_faberfindslaunch\">remarkable article<\/a> describing how Faber &amp; Faber (the publishers) are using a series of graphical parts and some custom software to automatically generate book covers for their new series of out of print works.<\/p>\n<p>It works by using a standard layout for things like the title and the barcode, but then using parameterized graphics it generates a unique cover graphic for each book.<\/p>\n<p>The covers fit within the style that has been chosen of course, but each is unique.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really clever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a remarkable article describing how Faber &amp; Faber (the publishers) are using a series of graphical parts and some custom software to automatically generate book covers for their new series of out of print works. It works by using a standard layout for things like the title and the barcode, but then using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}