I amaze myself each week, when I find ways to write about things on Fwis. The site doesn't post new designs very often and I get bored with book covers. This week, as I was searching for things to write about, I noticed that a lot of book cover designers are using shapes, particularly circles. In my own designs I've started using rounded edges on sidebar frames and dots of various sizes and colors to make the page "pop."
The critique of Carol Devine Carson's design of Matters of Honor gives great insight to how people respond to shapes. Some of the critiquers go off on tangents about spacing and typography, but one person wrote that the geometric shapes on the cover is enough to spark his interest.
Check out the way different people respond to Carson's use of shape and take a look at how other designers use shape to reflect the book's content at Fwis.
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