Bambi vs. Godzilla Author: David Mamet Publisher: Pantheon Publication date: Feb. 6, 2007 Designer: Brian Barth Typeface: Knockout http://bookcoverarchive.com/book/Bambi_vs_Godzilla_On_the_Nature_Purpose_and_Practice_of_the_Movi

This book cover was published by Pantheon and written by David Mamet. I believe this is a powerful example of interaction of color because although there is multiple colors being shown, there is one that is dominant over the others. The color yellow completely dominates this book cover. Because of the amount of space that color is taking up, it is diminishing the green, orange, red and pink colors. If you were to stare at the middle of the book for a little while, it would seem as if the entire cover was yellow. The whole cover acts as a hue because the colors blend with the next color coming from both the top and the bottom. Towards the top of the composition, you can clearly see that there is some orange and pink. Just above the black line that goes across the top of the book, it shows a little bit of red. The top is more engaging than the bottom because there are more colors. The bottom of the book has more of a lemon/lime look to it. As the value of each color gets lighter, the more of the next color in the hue we can see. Each color is not on its own. In other words, we cannot determine a “darker” red that looks brown because it changes to a more pinkish color. The colors are close in value if you were to choose the top or bottom section, but looking at the cover as a whole, it is a composition of multiple hues. Going from the bottom to the top, the temperature seems to get hotter. Green, being a mellow and calm hue, changes to yellow, which is what we associate with the sun. However, it makes a dramatic switch to a more cool color: pink. There isn’t that much saturation in this composition, as each color is solid and pure on its own. The order of color on this cover seems to portray a more complementary look until it gets to the top of the cover, where it may start a analogous color relationship.