MoneySaving Old Style The Book: what to put on the cover?

Gingham_Ribbon

I think maybe if it looks too old fashioned, it will put some people off. (Although I'd be instantly drawn to it.) Maybe a picture of a very modern kitchen with a zoom in picture of under the sink, and that is full of vinegar, bicarb etc.

MrsTinks

Although the front cover is important to help sell the book then I think Martins name on it and the words Money Saving will go a long long way

However I like the idea of a birds eye view of lots of MSE'rs looking up with Martin in the middle... but with each person holding SOMETHING OS just a thought...

nicki_2

Since the OS boards description reads "White vinegar for cleaning, WWII rationing for budgeting. The good ol'days brought back" why not have an image of Martin in a modern style kitchen with a slow cooker, breadmaker, trug of veg "straight from the garden" mud and all, etc on the worktop behind him. Foreground image is him, pinny optional :rotfl:, unpacking a basic "OS" shop of soda crystals, vinegar, bicarb (all repackaged so you're not promoting any particular brand - think Big Brother style labels ), bags of flour etc, you get the idea. Meanwhile just in the background is a laptop or computer with his sites homepage visable

Just an idea.

sphrp2

What if you took lots of little photos of the contributors faces and used them to make up one big (Martyn's) face. Not like an identikit, but use different colour shades of the tiny faces to construct the big one. Not a very good explanation but I've seen it on some billboards and at a glance you see the big picture and when you look more closely you see the small ones.

sneekymum

How about a 50s style snap of Martin and key contributors enjoying leisure time (rollercoaster at Blackpool ?) - to show that the point of saving money is to have more to spend on the things you enjoy.

Ticklemouse

sneekymum wrote:

How about a 50s style snap of Martin and key contributors enjoying leisure time (rollercoaster at Blackpool ?) - to show that the point of saving money is to have more to spend on the things you enjoy.

I'm liking this one a lot sneekymum - mainly the rollercoaster at Blackpool thing :rotfl:

I was thinking along the lines of Martin's pound sign (with the tape measure around it's middle) from the current book weighed against or somehow connected to lots of our Old Style things - slow cooker, vinegar, microfibre cloths, cookbook, basket of home grown goodies and eggs.

Tony_H_3

I like the idea of the cover being made up of piccy's of the board contributors, but I feel it would be more appropriate for the entire cover to be a "Faded/Watermarked" collage. Similiar I guess to the £20.00 notes on the original.

This still leaves the dilema about the main image for the book!!

Linguistic_Chimp

How about having a background of all the names/loginnames of all the people who who have contributed to the book, in the firum, computer font style, but done in sepia so as to indicate the old style nature of the book, and in front of the names a picture of Martin sitting crosslegged or something? It would capture the dual edged element of the book i.e. old style advice that started off in a most modern format, and also make the connection to martin and his website...

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Gingham_Ribbon

The 'rollercoaster' could be in the shape of a pound sign with Martin holding vinegar in one hand and bicarb of soda in the other up in the air!