If you’ve ever wondered what it looks like when five PowerPoint slides and a necktie get into a fistfight, look no further than Men Talk — a cover that doesn’t just miss the design mark, it obliterates it in five fonts and six angles.
Let’s start with what we’re apparently here for: “MEN TALK.” Except instead of talk, what we get is a shout — visually, typographically, and spiritually. The word “MEN” arrives in a bold block font with a necktie-turned-road-sign hanging from the E, just in case you forgot this is about Men™. And that tie? It says “DRIVEN TALK” like it’s advertising a sermon and a used car dealership.
Below that, “[TALK]” is jammed into a box like it’s trying to escape. The bracketed aesthetic makes it feel like an error message or a placeholder for “insert better design here.”
Then there’s Prophet LN Justin, front and center, pointing toward the sky — or possibly toward the layout mistakes. He’s partially overlapping a cropped photograph of five clapping men tucked into a tilted parallelogram wedge, because no design decision on this cover can sit still. His jacket blends awkwardly into a navy shape that’s supposed to be a design element but ends up looking like a mystery patch of graphic drywall.
Now let’s get into the typographic smorgasbord.
We’ve got:
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All caps,
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Mixed case,
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Italics,
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Gothic-script-adjacent,
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And the occasional random size drop, just for chaos.
The verse from Matthew 19:26 is crammed into a jagged orange banner like it was caught in a landslide of faith and geometry. The use of “WITH GOD” in bold is so aggressive it practically launches off the page and into your frontal cortex.
Meanwhile, “BLESSING TV” sits at the bottom with a logo that looks like a streaming button mid-glitch. It’s flanked by enough gradients and shadows to fuel a full graphic design bootcamp… from 2003.
The color palette? A full-on harvest festival palette explosion — mustard, tangerine, midnight navy, faded burgundy, and a whole lot of gradient noise. No harmony. Just… ambition.
And let’s not forget the logos crammed in at the corners — one from the World Community Counselling Centre and the other from Blessing TV — as if this cover is a business card, billboard, flyer, DVD cover, and sermon title slide all at once. Spoiler: it shouldn’t be any of them.
In the end, Men Talk doesn’t say “engaging spiritual leadership.” It says “I downloaded six free design templates and refused to choose one.” There’s content in here somewhere, but the design is so cluttered, no one’s going to find it without a flowchart and divine intervention.
Final Verdict:
God may make all things possible — but even He’s looking at this cover like:
“Not without a better layout.”