It's ugly, and I think it's probably ugly on purpose, but unfortunately, i'm not sure the ugly is gonna sell more books for GS. i love Corrals bold, in-yo-face book covers like the next guy.
Another anti-corp media book with another ugly cover. If this cover is meant to be ugly and communicate the ugly nature of mass media news. I never thought I'd get into book covers.
2007/09/inner-view-on-book-design- holly.html May be of interest to other non-designers like myself who usually just lurk. If anything, I think the split headz and 3-D type make it look science-fiction-y in a Kurt Vonnegut sort of way. The fact that it's not pretty in the conventional sense helps it to stand out. I say, Go Rodrigo! This cover is wacky enough to get people's attention. I hope he really didn't write "fails to _due_ justice" in his blog entry. I'm not sure how many such covers there are in the archives, but I'll try to look around. There's a larger conversation to be had here, I think: deliberately designing ugly things. News stations pay a good amount of attention to their graphics these days and this looks like lettering from some old talk show in the 70s. I think this cover is poorly executed, but the concept is good. But unfortunately this ads to the trash of the world as well. Despite a few rough spots, these essays contain much to delight. (he holds up the latter as “my first model of beautiful compressionâ€â€”the novel that made him want to be a writer). He also discusses some of his most important literary influences, including Slaughterhouse Five , where Saunders wanders through the gleaming luxury hotels of Dubai or keeps an overnight vigil over a teenage boy meditating in the Nepalese jungle, are enriched by his eye for odd detail and compassion for the people he encounters. Fortunately, longer travel pieces written for GQ Simpson and the 9/11 terrorist attacks is indistinguishable from the complaints of any number of cultural commentators. In the title essay, for example, his lament over the degraded quality of American media between the trial of O.J. Like “Ask the Optimist,†in which a newspaper advice column spins out of control, reflect the gleeful insanity of his fiction, while others display more earnestness, falling short of his best work. ) offers up an assortment of styles in his first nonfiction collection.
Best known for his absurdist, sci-fi–tinged short stories, Saunders ( In Persuasion Nation
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