{"id":4106,"date":"2011-04-07T12:15:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T16:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/?p=4106"},"modified":"2017-05-17T12:12:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T16:12:43","slug":"the-golden-spark-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2011\/04\/the-golden-spark-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Design for &#8220;The Golden Spark&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The striking cover of <strong><em>The Golden Spark<\/em><\/strong> (Book 2 of <strong>The Legend of the Great Horse<\/strong> trilogy ~ <em>Micron Press<\/em>) was designed by <strong>Allen Griffith<\/strong> of <strong>Eye 4 Design<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/gh2_ico187x281-72d-hi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4153\" title=\"gh2_ico187x281-72d-hi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/gh2_ico187x281-72d-hi.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;The Golden Spark&quot; bookcover\" width=\"187\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>The image features a gold coin on display in a drawing room of Versailles, the famous royal ch\u00e2teau of the 17th-Century King Louis XIV of France.<\/p>\n<p>The coin is a reimagined period currency minted to honor one of the equine characters of <strong><em>The Golden Spark<\/em><\/strong> &#8230; shown performing the Capriole, one of the <em>Airs Above the Ground<\/em> of the Haute \u00c9cole, or High School, of dressage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eye 4 Design<\/strong> specializes in quality custom graphic design, and produced a stunningly rich image while remaining faithful to the book&#8217;s historically accurate scenes. The design continues the central &#8216;coin&#8217; theme of <strong>Book I: <em>Eclipsed by Shadow<\/em><\/strong> while artistically reflecting changes in color, variety and complexity that attended the rebirth of European culture in the Renaissance.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"color: #330000;\"><strong><em>Eye 4 Design<\/em><\/strong> is a specialty commercial graphics design firm based in Austin, TX, delivering quality custom work for both business and individual clients. For more information contact <em>Allen Griffith<\/em> @ 512-454-5471.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trade cover for <strong><em>The Golden Spark<\/em><\/strong> (Book II of <strong>The Legend of the Great Horse<\/strong> trilogy), published by <em>Micron Press<\/em> was designed by <strong>Allen Griffith<\/strong> of <strong>Eye 4 Design<\/strong> based in Austin, TX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[274,59],"tags":[118,236,332,235,237,234,301],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14978,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106\/revisions\/14978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}