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The boring book cover challenge, part 3

The boring book cover challenge, part 3

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The boring book cover challenge, part 3

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- This is part three of our Boring Book Project. I'd like to review two more covers. If you missed the challenge, I encourage you to go back and see the first two episodes. What I did was give you an assignment to design the cover of a book that you would keep by your bedside to read and fall asleep. You don't want to arouse the reader in any way. And like you heard before, a lot of you discovered that designing something blah is just as hard as any other kind of design. That's because in the presence of anything visual, we respond. We're extremely good at spotting faces, at seeing patterns, at seeing contrasts and differences, and we're constantly looking for meaning. If these aren't present, we'll tend to tune out mentally, but our eyes are still paying attention. So they will see the difference. We'll respond differently to a corner than to a curve, for example. And so our job as designers is to be aware of those differences. Let's take a look at these. The first one is called…

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