zombie84 wrote: It's McQuarrie intellectual property, because he made it. But it's the copyright of Lucasfilm, because they paid for it. That's my understanding of how that works. I may look into that though.
Anchorhead wrote:
Perhaps some of the early concept artwork isn't owned by Lucas.All original content of this site, both graphical and textual, is the intellectual property of Ralph McQuarrie, www.ralphmcquarrie.com, and Dreams and Visions Press unless otherwise indicated.
I've got one of the RMQ D&V books and the cover page has a list of copyright clauses. Each SW movie has their own which are 'All rights reserved. Used under authorization.' etc. So you'll have to ask LFL, most likely. Reaching out to them at this point might be good thing to do anyway. Post BD, new management on the way in, see where you stand. (if that's even possible to figure out, and the reshuffling doesn't affect the books division...)
zombie84 wrote: I'm thinking of re-designing the website, to be a bit more interesting to look at. I feel like there should be something a bit more eye-catching.
Not sure on the eye-catching, most people go there to read. (which is clean and easy as it is) Link the revised book cover and the new website design. Maybe there's a fancy font which can be a link, like how they often do with the first word of a chapter. Maybe use/mimick some of GL's handwriting from those yellow script pages. Or you're own, it's your book.
One place to start redesigning is to collect places you appreciate, find easy to read, find easy to navigate, etc. and those can be ideas which to start a redesign. Otherwise 'blink' is eye-catching. (but not holding)