m.obrock needed a new book or magazine cover design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 90 designs submitted by 27 freelance designers.
The Mosaic: Insights about our Life, Consciousness and Existence
Markus Obrock
born 1981,
Graduate Engineer in Electrical Engineering (2005),
Working as Lean Leader / Change Expert,
Writing since 2010.
(Translated for briefing)
Text for Back Cover:
Wisdom is possible all the time, like its loss, each with great impact to our lives. Extensive knowledge plays a secondary role in this connectedness. We might be able to explain every detail in the universe but forget to care for the reality ›behind‹ our explanations.
The true nature of existence shows itself only in connection with awareness. Without awareness ›everything is nothing‹. Our life would only be an occurrence within a much larger event, an illusion, so to speak, that could include even our religions, sciences and common sense.
Therefore, your life does not need new unprecedented knowledge to finally become happy, fulfilled and meaningful, but your wisdom ›that is possible anytime‹. You don‘t have to wait. Within the insights of humanity, the most wonderful abbreviations can be discovered on the spot!
(Book will be released in german language)
Klappentext:
Weisheit ist jederzeit möglich, ebenso wie ihr Verlust, was unser Leben jeweils in großem Maße beeinflusst. Umfangreiches Wissen spielt im Vergleich dazu eine zweitrangige Rolle. So mögen wir jedes Ereignis im Universum lehrbuchartig erklären können, aber möglicherweise gerade dadurch vergessen, auf die Wirklichkeit hinter den Erklärungen zu achten.
Die wahre Natur der Existenz zeigt sich erst in Verbindung mit Achtsamkeit. Ohne Achtsamkeit »ist alles nichts«. Unser Leben wäre nur ein Ereignis innerhalb eines viel größeren Ereignisses, sozusagen eine Illusion, welche sogar die Religionen, die Wissenschaften und den gesunden Menschenverstand einschließen könnte.
Ihr Leben braucht deshalb kein »noch nie dagewesenes Wissen«, um letztendlich glücklich, erfüllt und bedeutsam zu werden, sondern Ihre »jederzeit mögliche Weisheit«. Warten müssen Sie nicht. In den Erkenntnissen der Menschheit lassen sich auf der Stelle die wunderbarsten Abkürzungen entdecken!
Target audience are
# people with questions about life, searching for solutions to life's problems, increasing their awareness,
# people with curiosity regarding a new holistic world view.
Some more background to the book:
"The Mosaic" combines the reliable knowledge of humanity, shows the concordant connection of science, religion and pure reason and thereby answers the great questions of our lives.
The book is a spiritual journey: to first discover the limitations of our worldviews, then find a surprising way out of them and gain an unexpected enthusiasm for existence!
I'm looking for:
#a mosaic style artwork that looks random on first glance but shows a deeper connectedness on a second glance, maybe in combination with front and back cover, basically saying: "The further you step back from details (fragments), the more you see from reality (the mosaic)."
- motifs for the mosaic might be abstract / or e.g. earth, a roots growing into tree of life, a mirror & abstract face, yin & Yang - or something you think: that's it!
Edit: Maybe also a hidden Portal "into a more conscious place".
#title and subtitle layout
#made for print size up to A4 (~ 5000 x 3500pxs for front/back combined)
Thank you very much, I look forward to your design and idea :)
Markus
#You may use the english / translated texts for the design. I need to publish in german language, but I guess this can be exchanged at the end.
#No comic or cartoon characters
#No resemblance to a "mosaic church window" - the motif itself (e.g. the world, a tree, a mirror) should be a mosaic