Considerable time was spent in balancing the array of images with seas and skies made bluer. The brief was to keep the company branding to a minimum, hence no company name on the front cover. Granite was also challenged to make the cover stand out as if it were a photograph. To meet this challenge, the picture was UV varnished and, to give it a little 3D effect, the area was embossed.

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