The best -- and sometimes the worst -- of book cover design
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Parenting, Inc.
A good design strategy for alarmist books is to use color to emphasize the important stuff, because, you know, sometimes a 27-word subtitle just doesn't get your point across.
You would be amazed how many times a publisher has ASKED me to do this type of design treatment for an already long-ass subtitle. And I do it for them...
the author text at the bottom is in such a bad font for the rest of the cover, too. ugh.
ReplyDeleteYeah...not my favorite.
ReplyDeleteWay too many words on the cover...and seemingly no particular point to how the color is used. I couldn't agree more that it's bad!
ReplyDeletePersonally I can't stand this cover. I find the subtitle obnoxious and would probably pass it up because it the excessive wordiness of it.
ReplyDeletedesign aside. I would like to read this book.
ReplyDeleteYou would be amazed how many times a publisher has ASKED me to do this type of design treatment for an already long-ass subtitle. And I do it for them...
Are the baby's little tufts of hair supposed to resemble horns? Is fetal education and toddler couture turning our children into demons?
ReplyDeleteAs the father of a 3 month old, I would fight to the death someone trying to take away the baby wipe warmer. I'm not kidding.
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