Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde Jasper Fforde writes some awesomely fun fiction. He creates these slightly (or sometimes drastically) different versions of our world that border on the geniusly bizarre.  In his Thursday Next series, the main character is a literary detective for the Jurisfiction department, which patrols the law inside books. Another of his series is the Nursery Crimes books, which features the investigations of DCI Jack Spratt, where he investigates what really happened in classic nursery rhymes. For a book nerd like me, they’re sort of perfect.  For his latest series, Shades of Grey, Fforde has created a future version of our world where social class is determined by one’s ability to perceive color. No one can see more than their own color, and no one knows why— there are many unknowns ever since The Something That Happened. It follows the main character of Eddie Russett, a Red, as he beginnings to discover the truth behind the world he lives in. In the book, when a person turns 20, they take the Ishihara to determine what color and how high of a percentage of it they can see (the more you can see, the higher your rank will be).  Because the Ishihara is an actual test created to determine color-blindness, I used that as the basis for my design, having the title appear in red as Eddie would see it, among a sea of grey. You can find out more about the book here. UPDATE: Jasper posted the cover on his website, which you can view here. Awesome! 2nd UPDATE: Jasper is using the artwork from my cover to print out postcards that he signs and hands out at his book-reading tours across the world! Insanely cool!
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Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde writes some awesomely fun fiction. He creates these slightly (or sometimes drastically) different versions of our world that border on the geniusly bizarre. 

In his Thursday Next series, the main character is a literary detective for the Jurisfiction department, which patrols the law inside books. Another of his series is the Nursery Crimes books, which features the investigations of DCI Jack Spratt, where he investigates what really happened in classic nursery rhymes. For a book nerd like me, they’re sort of perfect. 

For his latest series, Shades of Grey, Fforde has created a future version of our world where social class is determined by one’s ability to perceive color. No one can see more than their own color, and no one knows why— there are many unknowns ever since The Something That Happened. It follows the main character of Eddie Russett, a Red, as he beginnings to discover the truth behind the world he lives in.

In the book, when a person turns 20, they take the Ishihara to determine what color and how high of a percentage of it they can see (the more you can see, the higher your rank will be). 

Because the Ishihara is an actual test created to determine color-blindness, I used that as the basis for my design, having the title appear in red as Eddie would see it, among a sea of grey.

You can find out more about the book here.

UPDATE: Jasper posted the cover on his website, which you can view here. Awesome!

2nd UPDATE: Jasper is using the artwork from my cover to print out postcards that he signs and hands out at his book-reading tours across the world! Insanely cool!

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  1. ofaquicksilverdisposition reblogged this from newcover
  2. bitsofivory reblogged this from newcover and added:
    Jasper Fforde + Perfect Cover = ♥
  3. greyadorablecity reblogged this from newcover and added:
    i can’t even begin...explain how much i love this man’s writing. it’s so witty
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  5. cuivres reblogged this from newcover and added:
    Wow, how cool is it he actually uses your work? ♥
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  8. sublimesublemon reblogged this from stopitsgingertime and added:
    This book sounds really cool.
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  11. dialling-footnoterphone reblogged this from jurisfiction and added:
    I SWALLOWED MY TONGUE. IF YOU COULDN’T TELL BY MY TUMBLR NAME I LOVE THIS SERIES ASJDHFLASKJH
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  13. aliisyourfriend reblogged this from newcover and added:
    I’ve had this book...my to-be-read stack since it first came out. I started it on Friday...
  14. bartsbooks reblogged this from newcover and added:
    Got a postcard of this one today at the Jasper Fforde signing. :)
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  16. kiransingh reblogged this from newcover and added:
    These are incredible! This...should have looked.