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Saturday, January 13, 2007

Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them

OK, I need a little help with this one. The dots are immigrants?

7 comments:

AnttiP said...

Absolutely, I would say, and I like the idea of melting together(?).

Yet, maybe a bit too lined up for my taste: the massive title would need something more living and complex. Now the message says: "Put these people in this whole and those others in that one - and so, square unity!"

Joseph said...

Anttip, I think you're totally right about this being a little bit too lined up.

Anonymous said...

It would have been cool if this was a chess board and it was a pawn...instead of random abstract dots facing each other. Lazy approach.

Anonymous said...

I don't think it's meant to be random or abstract, exactly - isn't it based on that game 'Connect Four'? Although that suggests a kind of adversarial philosophy which the book is presumably against.

Anonymous said...

I think it's portraying a few immigrants in the top portion (the red dots) changing to only a few non-immigrants in the bottom portion. The whole question of immigrants is specious, though, because all non-Native Americans are immigrants or are descended from immigrants.

Wandering Editor said...

You can't see it in this image, but there are raised images of figures inside many of the dots. Shame it doesn't really come through on screen; it's really a rather nice cover.

Joseph said...

Seth: Thanks for pointing that out. I try to see as many of these in person as I can, but this silly day job keeps getting in the way. Everyone should feel free to write in with that kind of information -- and with designers' names too!