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The dynamic cover is by Five Rivers’ Art Director, Jeff Minkevics. We thought fans would be interested to read about the process behind the cover design, and so tapped the depths of Jeff’s prodigiously creative mind.

JM: The challenge behind the cover for Type2 was the same sort of challenge that presents itself whenever doing artwork for a sequel — coming up with something fresh and visually interesting that works on its own, but that also has a similar look, feel, and overall concept as the first. For the original Type cover the idea was to use three out of four Myers-Briggs pair initials in the title, then alter a fourth one to make the ‘Y’, since the four Myers-Briggs pairs don’t use that particular letter. The 4-letter combinations that made up personality types were meant to look authoritarian and repetitive, with the word ‘Type’ jumping out at you in red from where the four necessary letters happened to line up.

With Type2 I wanted a similar authoritarian feel, but didn’t want the letters to operate the same way with the background. What I came up with was the idea of metallic letters mounted on a granite or marble surface, each group of four spelling out a Myers-Briggs personality type, as before. However, rather than simply alter the letters to spell out Type, I felt the title would benefit from associations with rebellion, and disrupting the status quo. I wanted it to look like the letters had been forcibly removed from the wall, with the letters for the word ‘Type’ scratched into the wall where they had once been.

Halfway into creating the ‘scratches’ I quickly realized that the letters in the title would likely have similar weight and coloring to the letters that remained untouched, or even less weight, which would be a problem. After figuring there needed to be more differentiation between title and background, and since the overall colour scheme was relatively close, I re-introduced red over top of the title letters in a manner that could hint at both spray-paint and blood, and since both are consistent with the theme of rebellion it seemed perfect. Now the title jumps off the page at you, and although this is a completely different visual environment than was used in the first Type novel, it has many things in common with it stylistically, and thematically.