Mystery meat is right. Science fiction? Fantasy? Conspiracy theory about Wall Street’s control of our politicians? Or the superior aliens coming to earth to make us their slaves? Wait a minute. That last one might be real.
My suggestions: lower the title one body lead, center the name vertically in the band, in the space at the bottom add a tagline hinting at genre or subject. Perfected.
It’s a sampler of modern Japanese textile design. The name is one of those embarrassing automatic translation fails, really original was something like ‘designs of higher quality’
No, it’s a story of elves and trolls and failed magic. It’s obvious … ok it’s not obvious from the cover. But. Let’s not mislead fans of Japanese textile design just to be snarky.
EricL
7 years ago
Well, if the higher echelon must endure wallpaper that ugly, I choose to stay among the hoi polloi.
Naaman Brown
7 years ago
This cover is not as ugly as the covers for Tanya Allan books. I like it more and more as this week draws to an end. Peace.
Karl
7 years ago
Not a hideous cover, but it looks like the sort of cover you get on dry academic dissertation-books with titles like “Globalization and the Economy of Rural Mongolia.”
Grackle
7 years ago
Looks like a lot like a Dover novel/poetry compilation. Those work, though, because they only publish classics most people already have some passing knowledge of.
red
7 years ago
The’s echelon is even higher than Higher’s echelon.
If The’s echelon was any higher, this book would have to be called just Higher Echelon. Then they would probably move the Higher Echelon still higher, even though The Higher Echelon should be lower.
James F. Brown
7 years ago
After seeing this cover, I had a nightmare that my bedroom was covered in wallpaper with this pattern. 🙁
Catie
7 years ago
At least the designer is aware of his limitations and is not piling layers upon layers of badly cut out images, kindergarten artwork and horrid fonts. It’s better to go for mediocre and boring than ‘OMG what did I just see UUURGGHH!’
This has been one of the better covers this week.
That’s the kind of week this has been.
There’s still Saturday tho’, isn’t there?
Mystery meat is right. Science fiction? Fantasy? Conspiracy theory about Wall Street’s control of our politicians? Or the superior aliens coming to earth to make us their slaves? Wait a minute. That last one might be real.
My suggestions: lower the title one body lead, center the name vertically in the band, in the space at the bottom add a tagline hinting at genre or subject. Perfected.
It’s a sampler of modern Japanese textile design. The name is one of those embarrassing automatic translation fails, really original was something like ‘designs of higher quality’
Ah. All is made clear. Thank you for doing the research I was too lazy for.
No, it’s a story of elves and trolls and failed magic. It’s obvious … ok it’s not obvious from the cover. But. Let’s not mislead fans of Japanese textile design just to be snarky.
Well, if the higher echelon must endure wallpaper that ugly, I choose to stay among the hoi polloi.
This cover is not as ugly as the covers for Tanya Allan books. I like it more and more as this week draws to an end. Peace.
Not a hideous cover, but it looks like the sort of cover you get on dry academic dissertation-books with titles like “Globalization and the Economy of Rural Mongolia.”
Looks like a lot like a Dover novel/poetry compilation. Those work, though, because they only publish classics most people already have some passing knowledge of.
The’s echelon is even higher than Higher’s echelon.
If The’s echelon was any higher, this book would have to be called just Higher Echelon. Then they would probably move the Higher Echelon still higher, even though The Higher Echelon should be lower.
After seeing this cover, I had a nightmare that my bedroom was covered in wallpaper with this pattern. 🙁
At least the designer is aware of his limitations and is not piling layers upon layers of badly cut out images, kindergarten artwork and horrid fonts. It’s better to go for mediocre and boring than ‘OMG what did I just see UUURGGHH!’