Book Cover

I think it's pretty shameful that you have used this page to promote your business which frankly sounds like a load of crap anyway.

But moving on to the design. I think the design is pretty rubbish if I'm honest. Considering the style and aesthetics of modern books, this looks like a book cover from the 1990s. The image is horrible (it looks like something you've pinched from a Clip Art library or something), and so is the text (the only text that looks half decent here is the title text of "Vote23"). That green bar too is pretty nasty. With the image, it looks far too obvious that you've just plonked an "$" on top of a blurry road - really what you should have done is made the "$" look like road paint. I'm not going to lie or pretend there's anything I like here - there isn't. It's bland, boring & unimaginative. I appreciate you've tried to come out with different designs, but all you've really done is fiddle with the text, essentially, they're all basically the same design.

I would suggest you do some research into your target market, and look at the good covers of other books to see what you need to be doing (I've attached some here). If you're going to sell your book, it really needs to catch peoples eye. Currently, your design looks amateur to me, so I'm going to think the content is amateur too and I'm not going to buy it.

Good luck.

The design is a powerful inducement to fools who believe in this kind of thing, i think it is a job well done!

I've numbered my thoughts below:

1. All these concepts are too similar to each other. Where are different colour variations, image variations etc?

2. For me this shade of cyan screams cheap. It is a colour which works online but not so well in print.

3. There are too many variations in font on the cover and the imagery is too cliched and obvious.

4. This cover says cheap self published book and doesn't inspire confidence in the contents within it.

5. The centred copy How to Really Get Rich etc isn't properly centred under the name above and the typography isn't kerned or anything.

6. I've attached a very quick concept which is a pure typographical option - I'd treat the dollar signs as same colour as background with a spot varnish on or make them silver/gold with spot varnish to convey quality.

I'm not saying this concept attached is by any means the right approach to take, merely a different approach.

I like your design concept, it’s clean and simple, use of of $ sign and image creatively presenting the idea behind the book writing. If I have to choose one of them then I will go with the “MillionaireFastlane8(2).jpg” as it seems done aesthetically.

Few thing I will suggest you to work which I thing make it best:

• Type setting of the “the millionaire fastlane” looks nice to me, however, I think you can avoid the use of drop shadow from each text to look it more sharp and clean

• I think you can avoid the use of motif underneath the 2nd line “how to… fast!” as It doesn’t look complimenting your design

• Try to reduce the size of author and use it a small text for the same

• Cloud fading into the blue which not working for me, try couple more option for the use of cloud

Overall it’s look great, and you have done a good job!

I like the design, it accomplishes the goal and gets the message across - but your typography needs work. The positioning of the "the" doesn't really make sense and the black text for the authors name is jarring.

If I had to pick a concept, I'd choose #1 without a doubt.

This is the general conclusion I've come to: although the design itself is not very appealing, if you're the designer and have no power over the content of the book or the title, then your design shouldn't be beaten up for the fact.

That being said, I'll post what I think without the fact that I don't like the book's content and title, commenting only on how good the design within its context.

Font: The most fitting font for the title is in the first variation. To me, a sans serif font gives a more modern look to the book, which is not the objective here.

The tagline font serves its purpose.

Colours: Choice of colours is bland, but it works.

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After this point I feel the design could use some improvement.

If the $ were to look as part of the road, as Michael pointed out, it wouldn't look as out of place. The biggest problem with the bottom half of the cover is that its not "connected" to the top. There doesn't seem to be unity. Not sure how to get past this, I suppose it would require some experimentation of your part.

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Overall, I'm not a fan of the design in general, but as I said, it might work for the target audience. Do look at other covers in the same category.

Whether or not the book sells with respect to its content, the goal here is to help sell it by making a well designed cover for the target audience. Hope you find something useful in the above jumble. :)

The "t" in the should be upper case...

I am appreciating by the high revision count with the images that a lot of work and thought have gone into this.

Personally, I like the author's name at the top as in Vote26. I think connecting the Title to the call to action statement is important.

I like what you have here.

I like the style of the tag line "How to Really Get Rich... Really Fast!" better on the MillionaireFastlane8(2).jpg version. Also I like the use of drop shadows on the the text in that version. They really help make the text pop.

I would combine that tag line style with the first version (MF-Finals-Vote24.jpg). I like the main title and author layout in that version best.

One final suggestion would be to add a subtle gradient from the top of the book down to where the clouds start. Or maybe some clouds at the top that fade out where the text starts. Might ad some interest to the top of the book.