Good/Bad Book Cover Designs

 Good and Bad book covers.
The good:
This book cover has a good sense of emphasis.  The face is made to stand out, and the spiraling pattern truly draws the eye to the face, where the title is.  Also, the way the font is laid out keeps the design cohesive and balanced.






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This cover is very nice to me.  There is emphasis in the color change for the "bestseller" text, as well as emphasis in the size of "Koontz" who is the author (a pretty popular name that is all people need to see to want to buy it.)  Also, unity is created by the black and white theme throughout the cover.


The Bad:

Unlike the other book covers, this cover lacks balance a true emphasis.  It is busy, and the faded images create a lopsided sense to the cover.  The only real eye drawing thing about it is the color changes.  Other than that, the words and images split the cover in two, and result in you aren't really sure where to be looking.  Both the title and author appeared to be emphasized, but the faded in boy distracts from it.  Also, the lack of symmetry in the cover is rather bad. A simple lay out adjustment would have allowed this cover to not be so bad, but it is incredibly disjointed and without unity in its current state.





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The colors alone on this cover do not create a sense of unity.  The text in the mouth, the tear, and the thought bubble all draw you eye away from another emphasized point on the cover- the authors name and title.  I feel like this may not be a real book, but a gag.  Regardless, the design is disjointed and poorly done.  The increasingly large slanted text in "Stephen King" tries to create a balance, but in the end it only makes things 




I don't mean to rip on King's novels.  I just don't think these covers are not well designed or laid out.