A window to your sole...

Are we in the garden or is the wall keeping us out? The most intriguing thing about this cover is the image. The title is lost in the shrubbery.

I wonder if Ward Just might think more of himself than he does his writing; since his name is hierarchically more prominent? It seems as thought the designer found this great image that maybe related well to the content, and just slapped on the title.

Ace in the hole...

The strong diagonals created by the woman leaning on the bridge table are continued in the italicized text of the title. The bilateral type system is employed, and aids in balancing these strong diagonals.

The chosen type face echos the bygone era of the woman's dress, as well as the pass time of card playing. The airy quality of the letter spacing and heavy leading enhance the sense of depth in the image.

For your eyes only...

The collage effect of the of this book cover, with the rubber stamp, handwritten post-it, coffee and blood staining. Gives the a glimpse of what might be a dark and sinister tail.

The seemingly random layout is hiding a well organized grid. The dark red text in an Old Style font, looks to have been written in blood. The multiple type faces and hand lettering enhance worn from use quality.

I am mesmerized by the spiraling background...

The strong vertical bar-code lines are balanced by the silhouette of the man. They give a sci-phi impression of, Man vs. Bar-Code.

The rough bit-mapped quality of the type complements the bar- code and numerals. The utilization of all lowercase for the title, illustrates the word unincorporated. As if this man is unimportant, an insignificant cog in the machine or mechanism of life.

The bright yellow color of the title text complements and brings balance to the abundance of dark blue.

Its kind of creepy...

The image of the little girl's fragmented photograph is very arresting. The subtle color variation of the multi-panel layout, divided by the "Rule of Thirds" creates a rhythm that is echoed in the contrasting colors and alignment of the text.

The elongated height and line weight of the sans-serif typeface is repeated with the irregular grid lines. Overall great unity, and really illustrates the books title. But I won't read it...I don't like stories about possible bad things happening to little girls.