Diamond Dogs

Diamond Dogs Book Design

 

The book cover was printed on large format cotton paper. The outside cover was painted by hand with two coats of acrylic paint, sealed with matte medium and trimmed with rhinestones. The pull is a jewelry finding attached with coated wire sealed on the inside with archival tape.

Diamond Dogs book inside cover flat.

Diamond Dogs book inside cover flat

Typefaces used for this project: Crackvetica, Stencil Std, American Typewriter and Cut-n-Paste.

Diamond Dogs pages 1 – 5.

Diamond Dogs pages 1 – 5

The Diamond Dogs pages 6 – 10

The Diamond Dogs pages 6 – 10

The initial concept sketches and moodboard were based upon David Bowie’s glam-trash style song Diamond Dogs, 1974. The song, Diamond Dogs, is included on the concept album of the same name, Diamond Dogs, by David Bowie originally released in 1974 on RCA.

Diamond Dogs concept sketches

Diamond Dogs concept sketches

Diamond Dogs mood-board

Diamond Dogs mood-board