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The boring book cover challenge: Part 2

The boring book cover challenge: Part 2

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The boring book cover challenge: Part 2

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- Hi everyone, John McWade. I'd like to continue this time what we started last time, and that's a review of two more boring book covers. If you missed it, I'd encourage you to go back and look at the first installment. What I did was give you an assignment to design the cover of a book that you would keep by your bed to read and fall asleep, and a lot of you discovered that designing something bland and unengaging is just as difficult as any other kind of design. So let's look at two more covers. This is Amy's entry. I'm sure she thought that the long botanical title would put you to sleep; and if that failed, the sheer heft of the book, there must be 2,000 pages here, might crush you to sleep. But everything else about this design is pretty, and active, and engaging, which, of course, is the problem. It keeps us awake. The lowercase title was a good idea. Lowercase is softer than upper. But the weight, it's super thin, is sharp and demanding, and takes some effort to read. The cast…

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