2010 Hardback cover design: Peter Dyer
Not my most favoured book cover when it comes to design reading material. I think Peter Dyer has taken a more literal route to represent the book, he has used different fonts for each letter, which as a concept seems like a great idea but visually fails to work.
Colours used seem a bit childish, the Y being the same colour as the background is in no way consistent with the rest go the type and makes it stand out more.
Fonts used on the front cover are listed on the inner side of the jacket:
J = Adriator Regular
U = Aeronaut
S = Flirt Bold
T = Cyclone
M = Adam Gorry-Inline
Y = Shutterstock decorative alphabet
T = PopUps
Y = Adriator regular
P = Aeronaut
E = Polytone Reliant
Kind of deters away from Vignelli's six typefaces, huh?
2011 Paperback cover design: Jonathan Barnbrook
Barnbrook has clearly taken inspiration from the previous cover design. Reasons for this was probably to keep consistency and for it to be easily recognisable to people who may have seen the previous hardback design.
I'd say this is a slight improvement over the previous publication, but still lacks the aesthetic I like to see in book relating to design, but I tend to prefer minimalist, straight-to-the-point covers, I feel this gives the reader room to imagine whatever they like. This just seems childlike and unnecessary.
To conclude, both designs seem to bounce off each other well, but lack certain qualities that most design based books go by. Things like being legible rather than decorative, this is why I am choosing to stay away from this style of cover design and take an alternate route that will separate my design from these two.
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