This is a minimalist designed bookcover. It is called Against Happiness. It takes a look at the benefits of sadness. It was published in 2008. It was written by Eric G. Wilson. The artist was Jennifer Carrow. It’s an incredibly simple minimalist cover. It has a slight experimental typography thing going on. It has an integrated text design that gives a hint at what the book is about in a clever way.
It has an acidic brilliantly bright yellow background. The only text is shaped as a frown. This clever idea suits well with the title Against Happiness. If I was going to write a book about being against happiness it makes since to put it in the shape of a frown. On top of that, the yellow is an added reference to yellow smilie faces that people so often see. It makes a lot of sense to do this to reference that. Perhaps because the cover is so simple is what drew me to it. I love the way there is nothing distracting, nothing to take away from the clever title and author. Overall, a simple clever design that speaks to the audience.
Overall, I feel like the artist listened to the client. She made a cover that signified a book about not being happy. On top of that, she did a good job for the receiver. As someone who happened upon this cover, as a receiver myself, I instantly got it. This would be a book about unhappiness. It was instantly unmistakingly understood with just one look. That’s what drew me in-the very simple design. On top of that, I’m for sure not going to forget what the title is called or who the author is since they’re the only thing on the cover. And since the client was an author I think that would make them happy.
