Oct 11, 2025 | Horrible Covers
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...
Oct 11, 2025 | Horrible Covers
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...
Oct 10, 2025 | Horrible Covers
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,...
Oct 10, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads There’s minimalism, and then there’s this. Swimming Studies presents itself as an award-winning literary memoir, but visually it’s less “artful restraint” and more “someone fell asleep in Adobe Illustrator.” Over half the cover is a wide,...
Oct 10, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Every so often, a cover comes along that makes you stop, stare, and whisper softly, “Ah, 2003. We meet again.” Cloud Nine by Melissa A. Smith is one such time capsule — a masterpiece of early-Internet design optimism where bevels were...
