The Creation of the Cover for Sybil’s Garage No. 7 September 23, 2010 – Posted in: Aberrant Normalcy, Sybil's Garage

The creation of the cover for Sybil’s Garage is always one of the most difficult parts in creating the magazine.  Since the second issue, every cover has been unique.  I originally toyed with the idea of creating a photo collage in Photoshop — a kind of nigh-tech Steampunk fusion of machinery, ductwork, wiring, etc.  And when it came time to produce the latest issue I decided I’d apply this idea to the cover.  I had no idea if it was going to work at all, and my co-editors can tell you how much I stressed about it.

I started with photos of Greenpoint, Brooklyn and its industrial landscapes, like these below:

For the backdrop, I used the Tyrell Corporation building from Blade Runner, and and old rusted out metal cargo ship that was docked in Montreal, like so:

…and then over several laborious days I digitally cut up and stitched back together the many images to form the machine-dense collage you see here (click for high res):

It was a lot of work, but nothing worth doing is ever easy.  I think the result was a resounding success, but I’ll let you be the judge of that.

For the more visually (and musically) inclined, I’ve created a short film about the adventure here:

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