im toiling away at my textbook cover art gallery! it is going to have its own site, so i thought the other day i’d pick a free non-neocities host and start getting acquainted with it and set up, but… i need to come up with a name for the fuckin thing!
“gallery of groovy textbook cover art” is a real mouthful and has a terrible cadence… and also, i keep waffling between gallery and museum and archive and collection and other nouns… and it doesnt really abbreviate or acronymify nicely every shortened version i can think of just sounds like some kind of scam/spam site (cooltextbooks? textbookart?)
maybe i should just give it a whimsical/silly unrelated-to-textbooks name… i could name it after this fat platypus (too bad .us doesn’t have whois privacy, fatplatyp dot us would be a fun url)
I dunno. I tend to be pretty straightforward and literal with page names, though I do aim for a bit of alliteration now and then. With my media analysis essays I sometimes come up with titles by pulling a quote from a line of dialogue (like “you’re too picky, man” or “seldom typical of anything” or “good was never an option for me”), but it doesn’t sound like that approach would be applicable here. Unless, I suppose, you do want to hone in on the fat platypus theme and go with something like The Fat Platypus: A Cover Art Collection.
This is probably too off the mark, but I feel like calling it something like “Incidental Art” or something similar. Because almost nobody ever pays attention to the art on textbooks, they only care about what’s inside. So your collection is a sort of look at the “underdogs” of the design world.
…LOL although I just had a thought that it would be awesome if you could snag a domain like JudgeABook.[something].
every shortened version i can think of just sounds like some kind of scam/spam site (cooltextbooks? textbookart?)