[RUFFNECK]

Ed/Mason

To me personally it’s a whole lot of subtle things that were altered that really change the cover.

1)Re-arrangement and kerning of copy.

2)Shadowing and color adjustments(I realize this is a pre-prod cover)

3)Alterations on chips, which I think it is a good idea but it looks like it was obviously done by an amateur. The placement of new labels ends up ruining the aspect view of the chips. And actually gives a ghost hover affect on the chips.

4)Change of back jacket concept(I realize you wanted to put in those blocks of info, and the headshots), I just like his clean back layout better.

I think his version was much more dramatic and was a lot cleaner looking, to me this new rev. looks like a bad copy of what he did.

Maybe I am being a nit about it, but I reviewed every rev. of the cover.

At the last minute when the WSOP tourney chips were not to be used and the new chips had to be shot, we scrambled around to find someone, so he wasn’t putting penny eBay dice chips on the cover.

I’m a design snob, and Mark is my friend and has done all design work for my business.
I was just very disappointed to see what he had done turned into what I think is a shell of the original work.

It’s like me taking the manuscript giving it to Ken Warren and letting him make some changes to your writing.

--Speaking of the chips thanks to JoJoBinks @ ChipTalk, and the guy who created the Pharoh’s chips that were able to come through on a weekend to get new quality chips to be shot for the cover.