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Elland Road for The Square Ball issue 8 — a wide landscape cover marking Leeds United's long-awaited return to the Premier League.
About the Project
We might have missed 99% of our first season back in the Premier League since I was legally an adult — but it's good to be back.
For The Square Ball, Issue 8.
The concerningly large landscape version is available here.
Cover art variant. Coming soon.
Open any figure to inspect surface, print detail, and framing more closely without losing the overall sequence.
Elland Road twice over — the portrait cover, and the concerningly large landscape it grew into.
Stand by stand. The line work is where the hours went.
The line work carries it; the texture keeps it from reading like a diagram.
A2 poster and A3 print — links in the write-up above.
Sequence note
Every figure here opens full-screen — click any plate to expand it, then arrow or swipe through the sequence without losing your place. The deep zoom plates at the end go all the way to print resolution: close enough to see individual strokes, and you’re encouraged to.
Deep zoom appendix
Print-resolution studies
These appendix plates are wired for the Deep Zoom lightbox flow described in the implementation spec: inspection JPEG first, then tiled print-resolution detail once the viewer is ready.
