Monday, April 12, 2010



I read a lot a lot and I got the bright idea to look up cool book covers and I literally Googled "cool book covers" and came across this one lol.

The book cover has a very serious look to it due to the use of a neutral color as the main color of the design. It is very cold and one-sided and reminds of the use of steel during the International Typography Design Movement. It didn't really move me much because it does not make the book look interesting.

What wound up drawing my attention in was the use of the two heads serving as the wheel and recording tape of a cassette. It reminds me of the conceptual images used during the Contemporary time period where the message, imagery, and text were taken into context for the intended design.

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