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The new front page at the Paksworld website is now up. If you’ve been there before you may need to hit Refresh or Reload or however your browser does it to see the new design.
Eventually the other pages will have a top design but not as big as this–maybe a green banner with the page title in gold or something–simple, anyway, and not taking up too much room.
Jennifer Davis did the digital form of the artwork from my sketches; I played with the colors; Ruta Duhon of Willowbrook Designs put it all together and kept me from going astray.
Hope you enjoy it. (Now to quit playing with custom colors and “how many weird things can I do with this interlacement” and get back to work on the book proper.)
Comment by mari kurisato — January 21, 2009 @ 1:22 pm
It’s beautiful! And hey visual aids are always useful for sparking inspiration, right? Looks great!
Comment by elizabeth — January 21, 2009 @ 1:39 pm
Thanks! Glad you like it.
Comment by Si — January 21, 2009 @ 7:15 pm
Ooh, celtic knotwork, the art of my people. I await a really tiny royalty cheque (J/K)
I must admit, one of the things I *really* admired about the books was the familiar (in terms of humanity) yet strangeness of them.
Reading books that are a thin retread of the Mabinogion gets really old, and Paks had no truck with that.
Comment by elizabeth — January 21, 2009 @ 9:06 pm
Aha! (Picture author looking disgustingly smug)–I have fooled you. Maybe.
That’s not *Celtic* knotwork–or at least not Irish Celtic–or at least not *typical-Book-of-Kells Irish Celtic–that’s *Nordic* knotwork (the difference is in the details…)
I will spare you my researches through design elements, but basically…and allowing for overlap where Vikings and Celts overlapped, and an argument about how central Asian knotwork influences/was influenced by western European (the chickens and eggs in this case go back to horse nomads v. ship nomads and even the Great Central Asian People Factory one of my anthropology profs talked about)…basically: if it’s got fewer curves, fewer bands, simpler interlacement and has simple or concentric circles, it may well be Nordic/Viking, not Irish/Celtic.
Or not. It’s up to you, really, but I did aim toward the more Nordic side. Unless, of course, I goofed.
Comment by TexasEllen — January 22, 2009 @ 3:40 am
The knots are not Gordian. Attractive and something that Paks would recognize and appreciate.
Comment by elizabeth — January 22, 2009 @ 9:54 am
Thanks! I had fun with them.