Somewhere between an AI art experiment and a motivational poster hanging in a dystopian wellness retreat, Rewriting Humanity lumbers into the Horrible Covers arena looking like it brought the world’s most underwhelming apocalypse with it. If this is a “manifesto for a world reset,” let’s start by resetting this cover.
Let’s begin with the colour palette, which is aggressively sepia—like it was colour-graded by a pumpkin. We’re drenched in burnt orange, muddy browns, and a setting sun that glows with the urgency of a candle in a blackout. The whole thing looks less like the dawning of a new era and more like a vitamin D deficiency with a title.
Front and centre, we have the silhouette of a human figure standing nobly in the middle of this existential oatmeal. Except it’s not noble. Or human. This is clearly an AI-generated figure that didn’t quite finish rendering. The head is a blob. The coat is a shape. The posture is vaguely ominous, like they’re about to drop a mixtape about planetary renewal. The trees on either side? Smudgy and lifeless, like someone tried to digitally paint Bob Ross’s nightmares.
The typography doesn’t help. “REWRITING HUMANITY” is plastered across the top in a bland all-caps serif that could’ve been pulled from a middle-school social studies essay. No weight. No elegance. No sense of hierarchy. The subtitle—The Manifesto for a World Reset—is centered and equally forgettable, floating in space like it gave up halfway through its TED Talk. Then, anchoring the bottom like a gravestone: the author’s name, and the year “2025,” which feels more like an expiration date than a publication year.
There is zero visual logic here. No focal point, no framing, no balance—just an awkward digital blob of existential promise wrapped in every cliché of deep-thinking design. It’s not symbolic. It’s not powerful. It’s not even clear what it’s supposed to evoke, except maybe the feeling of watching a screensaver right before the computer crashes.
The whole composition screams serious ideas, unserious execution. It wants to be philosophical, but it ends up looking like AI-generated propaganda for a vaguely spiritual cryptocurrency cult.
Verdict: If this is the reboot of humanity, someone forgot to update the design software. The only thing getting rewritten here is the rulebook on how not to stage an epic global rebranding.