Minding the Brain – Yellowbrick Foundation

Minding the Brain – Yellowbrick Foundation

See this cover on Good Reads There’s a special place in design limbo reserved for covers like Minding the Brain — the kind that desperately want to look intellectual but end up looking like a motivational poster for neurons. This book promises a deep dive into...
The Auditors – Jay Hirschman

The Auditors – Jay Hirschman

See this cover on Good Reads Every once in a while, a cover comes along that captures the true spirit of corporate despair so perfectly you almost have to respect it. The Auditors isn’t just a bad cover — it’s a visual audit of everything wrong with self-published...
The Best Cadet – Lucas Kinkaid

The Best Cadet – Lucas Kinkaid

See this cover on Good Reads There are bad covers that offend the eye, and then there are bad covers that offend geometry, anatomy, and logic. The Best Cadet manages to do all three while still looking like a brochure you’d get at an underfunded leadership seminar....
American Ground – William Langewiesche

American Ground – William Langewiesche

See this cover on Good Reads Some covers try to tell a story. American Ground tries to tell a data set. Here it is — a neon-green, heatmap-from-hell rendition of what looks like either downtown Manhattan or the sonar scan of a coral reef. For a book with the subtitle...
The Guardian – Nicholas Sparks

The Guardian – Nicholas Sparks

See this cover on Good Reads Some book covers whisper, some shout — and then there’s The Guardian, which calmly jogs up beside you and says, “Hey, I’m not that bad,” before revealing it’s wearing five different fonts and a mildly confused expression. At first glance,...