How to design a book cover (in less than two minutes)

Okay, it’s six hours of work, but condensed down through the miracle of time-lapse to under two minutes. Cool job.

Designer Lauren sent it to Boing Boing, but she goes into much more detail on this blog entry at Design Related:

If you get a chance to read the books, they’re hilarious. They’re kind of a Victorian comedy of errors, just with werewolves and vampires. And the heroine, Alexia, is more plucky than dark. So with a little less “steam” and a little more “punk”, plus some type with a nod to British punk, we came to the “Victorian punk” kind of aesthetic of Soulless, Changeless, and Blameless.