What happens when you mix corporate branding with Sunday morning zeal and wrap it in the most uninspired design choices imaginable? You get Awakened Identity by Greg Simas — a book cover that awakens absolutely nothing except your inner graphic designer’s scream for mercy.
Let’s start with the layout. This cover is what happens when someone discovers Microsoft Word has a bold font option and decides that’s enough. It’s all text — no imagery, no texture, no visual hook. Just a blaring title in aggressive all-caps, sitting on a blank white canvas like it’s waiting for a design team that never showed up. There’s minimalism, and then there’s laziness dressed as minimalism — this is the latter.
The title, AWAKENED IDENTITY, is the design equivalent of shouting at someone across a quiet room and hoping it counts as meaningful conversation. The thick sans-serif font might think it’s commanding attention, but it actually just feels blocky and hostile, like a gym coach yelling affirmations.
Then there’s the subtitle: Unlock the Power of Sonship and Ekklesia to Change the World. If you felt confused halfway through that sentence, you’re not alone. “Sonship” and “Ekklesia” are the kind of buzzwords that demand context, but on this barren wasteland of a cover, they’re left to float like theological debris. And don’t get us started on the random red line under the author’s name — is it underlining? Is it separation? Is it an accidental keystroke that someone decided was “edgy”? We may never know.
Visually, this cover is a missed opportunity. There’s no symbolism, no thematic imagery, not even a color palette beyond “red and black on white,” which feels less like a design choice and more like someone gave up halfway through editing their Word doc and hit print anyway. The text alignment is clinical and robotic, like it’s prepping for a dental brochure instead of trying to convey spiritual transformation.
In short, Awakened Identity is the IKEA instruction manual of book covers: cold, text-heavy, and missing all the tools you need to care. It’s not awakening identities — it’s putting them to sleep.