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Hogshead Publishing (UK)
Nobilis.
Book jacket design for the Nobilis game and supplement Game of Powers, Hogshead Publishing (UK), 2002.
Nobilis won ‘Best Graphic Design of a Book Format Product of 2002’ at the 2002 Origins Awards, ‘the industry’s premier awards for recognizing excellence in hobby games publishing’ The award, pictured left, is known as ‘The Callie’ for the Greek Muse of epic poetry, Calliope.
If you’ve ever seen a bunch of ‘pen-and-paper’ gaming products on the shelf you’ll notice that they normally fall into the ‘bright colours, monsters and buxom warrior women’ stereotype, but Hogshead Publishing had the courage to do something different with this product, choosing to feature the stark image of the Art Nouveau sculpture Sphinx Mysterieux by Charles van der Stappe.
Given such excellent source material, Universal Head’s solution was to feature the image large and closely cropped with a simple yet elegant logo treatment. The image wraps over the covers and the bust’s pupil forms the ‘o’ of Nobilis on the spine. We had the pleasure of designing for a large format square hardcover, unusual in publishing.
Every review of Nobilis singled out the design as being something exceptional in a crowded and often unoriginal field of design. Universal Head continued the concept with a follow up, The Game of Powers.
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