Preliminary cover page design. I love book cover design, and designing a cover around subject matter from another great love – computing technology – is an absolute treat.

COBOL has been around since 1959 or there about (a 2nd generation programming language). The fact that it is still very-much around certainly counts for something.

Object orientation receives quite a bit of prominence in the text. My cover illustration design is partly intended to be a visualisation of object orientation. I have tried to portray the beauty of elegant, tight-and-crisp programming. Like the WordPress guys say, ‘code is poetry’ – and this is a digital composition in honour of the muse of computation. This is the kind of piece that I feel is as much art as it is graphic design, especially in terms of its visual semiology! (Logic of meaning via signs and symbols)

The spiral that I used as raster textures in the virtual 3D environment, (which after rendering I abstracted again) was coded and rendered by Neil in Apophysis who’s other scripted spirals in his DeviantART gallery is sheer eye-candy and worth a visit.