Nov 24, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Jim Brady, Able Seaman is a book cover that sails directly into disaster—and forgets to deploy the lifeboats. It’s not just bad. It’s a full-scale naval design emergency, the kind of layout that should come with a foghorn warning and a...
Nov 24, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Somewhere in a desert dreamscape, a designer shouted “Yeehaw!” and slapped together every vaguely Western element they could find, like a Pinterest board in crisis. Enter Deputy Brand Gets Her Man, a cover that answers the question: “What...
Nov 23, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads This cover may say The Gold Standard, but it looks more like the “PowerPoint Presentation Standard”, and even that might be generous. If design were currency, this one would be trading below the peso in a crisis. First, we’re confronted by...
Nov 21, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads There’s military romance, and then there’s Photoshop Boot Camp: Weekend Edition. The Officer walks straight out of the ranks and into the hall of cover design dishonor, where lighting logic is MIA, proportions are on leave, and subtlety...
Nov 21, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads There’s dystopia, and then there’s design-topia — a bleak, joyless wasteland where graphic choices go to die. Welcome to Universe 25, a book cover that seems less “psychological sci-fi” and more “PowerPoint presentation for 10th grade...
