Somewhere between a TED Talk slide and the opening screen of a meditation app, Finding Wellness found its way into the Horrible Covers Hall of Stock Art Shame.
This cover is a spiritual journey, yes—but not to enlightenment. No, this one leads straight into a glowing teal vortex of galactic confusion and font abuse. Let’s take a mindful breath and unpack this.
Front and center, we have the Nebula Noggin—a human head-shaped silhouette filled with a NASA image of deep space. Because what better way to say “healing” than “the birth of stars inside your skull”? This is not a subtle metaphor. This is a visual sledgehammer. The message seems to be: “The answers are within you. Also, several entire galaxies.”
And who’s that tiny figure walking into the cosmic cranial cave? Is he seeking balance? Inner peace? Or just trying to escape the layout? Because that glowing runway of light he’s on looks more like a sci-fi escape route than a path to wellness. He’s not healing. He’s fleeing.
Let’s talk typography. “FINDING WELLNESS” is two fonts trying to coexist like oil and water. The word WELLNESS is in a green-blue that’s one shade away from a toothpaste ad. It practically whispers, “Minty fresh mind vibes.” Meanwhile, the rest of the title is stiffly academic. And the subtitle—Essential Articles for Healing Your Mind, Body, and Spirit—is exactly the kind of thing you’d find on a wellness blog right before a banner ad for probiotics.
But the real design villain here? The footer.
DR. RANDALL S. HANSEN, PH.D.
Health & Healing Advocate
This is less “trusted expert” and more LinkedIn header from someone who once hosted a webinar on mindful breathing for middle managers. The gold font screams authority, but the layout screams “template error.”
It’s not that wellness can’t be visualized—it’s that this cover tries to visualize all of it at once, using every available stock effect in the digital spirituality starter pack. Galaxy? Check. Glowing light path? Check. Cosmic silhouette? Oh, you know that’s a check. It’s like someone dumped every “transformational” design trend into one blender and hit “liquify.”
In the end, Finding Wellness is a meditation in missed opportunity. A design that tried to align your chakras and instead aligned you directly with graphic design burnout. Namaste? No thanks.