**_Down Among the Dead Men_ skin design continues.** We're starting to develop our visual design pillars. In particular, we're trying to move away from illustrations for this one, and more towards real objects to represent the events and locations in the story. So, where there would've been an anatomical drawing in [Frankenstein](/content/frankenstein "Frankenstein"/index.html), here we have a real skull buried in the sand. We're also really keen to push more vibrant colours into the design of **Down Among the Dead Men**. Expect more treasure in future images! Yaaaar. As the design matures, we start to lay out the elements horizontally as they would actually be in the final inklebook. This starts to give us a feeling of the flow and hierarchy. Clearly, there's still a lot of work to be done here - the map doesn't quite make sense in this particular layout. 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