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The boring book cover challenge: Part 1

The boring book cover challenge: Part 1

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The boring book cover challenge: Part 1

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- Hi, everyone, John McWade. A while back, I put on a challenge to design a boring book cover. This was for a book that you'd keep by your bed to read and fall asleep and you swamped me with covers. You can see a lot of 'em on the Graphic Design Tips and Tricks group here on LinkedIn and I'd like to look at some. I did one too so we'll start with that. Your assignment was to design a cover and this was the challenge that does not arouse the reader in any way. You want the reader to not engage with it. Just blah. The rule was your book needed a title, subtitle optional, a photo or illustration and an author's name, all of which you'd make up. A number of you tried and said how difficult you found it to design something totally bland and it is counterintuitive because we think of bland as easy, as something undesigned like anyone can do a bland thing but that isn't actually the case. All those unattractive designs out there are in fact engaging you in some way. It can be negative, it's…

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