[Leica] Book cover design or photo

[Peter Cheyne]

Dear LUGgers,

I've written a book that wants a cover. I have an idea, but can't find the
materials to execute it. The book is academic, to be titled *Coleridge's
Contemplative Philosophy*. My cover idea is of an image of one hemisphere,
inverted, on top of another, i.e. a bowl facing upward, atop a bowl facing
downward. Here are some rough sketches I made:

https://flic.kr/p/24ZJpyo

My initial thought was to find two matching hemispheres, and arrange them
as in the sketches, photographed against a white backdrop, with a clean,
modernist, minimalist aesthetic. Two hemispheric glass bowls, or iron ones,
or brass, or some other material. But I can find no such things, so far.
(The concept, by the way, is of the higher, enlightened understanding
turned upward, towards what Coleridge called reason, spirit, and ideas,
with the lower hemisphere turned towards the things of the senses.)

Does anyone have access to such objects? If you could photograph them in a
way suitable for a book cover, I could pay. Not a great deal, but around
$200 is possible. The publisher might possibly be able to match that too,
so between $200 and $400 is possible. You'd also get a hardcover copy of
the book. My previous was published by Oxford University Press, and I'm
hoping this one will be too.

Also, if anyone here is a graphic designer, and thinks they could nicely
execute a graphic image, rather than a photo, developed from the idea in my
sketches, that would be an interesting option too.

Best wishes,

Peter