Disguised—No really significant improvement
Debarred—Better but neither interesting nor informative
Growing Up—ditto above
Z-Strain—nice image, poor layout and typography
DMI—boring and uninformative…even less informative than the original
Someplace—nowhere
Lost Cities—better only by comparison: boring, uninformative and with badly formatted type
Miss Spelled—a step backward. Should have stuck with the original art and just fixed the type
Frankie—Nope
Keeping—another step backward
Being better than a previous version really just isn’t enough. All too often it just means that a cover is less bad.
I have mentioned before that I look at these things as an art director at a traditional publisher would, which means that I ask myself: Would I consider this cover finished and pay for it?
Disguised—No really significant improvement
Debarred—Better but neither interesting nor informative
Growing Up—ditto above
Z-Strain—nice image, poor layout and typography
DMI—boring and uninformative…even less informative than the original
Someplace—nowhere
Lost Cities—better only by comparison: boring, uninformative and badly formatted type
Miss Spelled—a step backward. Should have stuck with the original art and just fixed the type
Frankie—Nope
Keeping—another step backward
Being better than a previous version really just isn’t enough. All too often it just means that a cover is less bad.
I have mentioned before that I look at these things as an art director at a traditional publisher would, which means that I ask myself: Would I consider this cover finished and pay for it?
Last edited 3 years ago by Ron Miller
NinaJ
3 years ago
I’m relieved to see that Miss Spelled went the random cute cat on the cover look instead of, you know, embracing the theme of the book. “Just one of these cozy kitty mysteries!”
Disguised—No really significant improvement
Debarred—Better but neither interesting nor informative
Growing Up—ditto above
Z-Strain—nice image, poor layout and typography
DMI—boring and uninformative…even less informative than the original
Someplace—nowhere
Lost Cities—better only by comparison: boring, uninformative and with badly formatted type
Miss Spelled—a step backward. Should have stuck with the original art and just fixed the type
Frankie—Nope
Keeping—another step backward
Being better than a previous version really just isn’t enough. All too often it just means that a cover is less bad.
I have mentioned before that I look at these things as an art director at a traditional publisher would, which means that I ask myself: Would I consider this cover finished and pay for it?
Disguised—No really significant improvement
Debarred—Better but neither interesting nor informative
Growing Up—ditto above
Z-Strain—nice image, poor layout and typography
DMI—boring and uninformative…even less informative than the original
Someplace—nowhere
Lost Cities—better only by comparison: boring, uninformative and badly formatted type
Miss Spelled—a step backward. Should have stuck with the original art and just fixed the type
Frankie—Nope
Keeping—another step backward
Being better than a previous version really just isn’t enough. All too often it just means that a cover is less bad.
I have mentioned before that I look at these things as an art director at a traditional publisher would, which means that I ask myself: Would I consider this cover finished and pay for it?
I’m relieved to see that Miss Spelled went the random cute cat on the cover look instead of, you know, embracing the theme of the book. “Just one of these cozy kitty mysteries!”