Book Cover: Critique Please!

[bntz313]

Here is a Book cover I'm doing for a friend. I'm going to layout the whole thing, let me know what you think of it.

 

[GoCubsGo]

I don't get the circles. The rest is really appealing to me. The circles are just plain out of place imho.

 

[bntz313]

I'll post another one tomorrow without the circles.

 

[fluidedge]

It's nice.

I think white on grey would look as nice as black on grey.

 

[Bojingle]

I personally like the circles.

'The Underground Artists of Detriot' seems really disconnected to the Detroit to me, though.

 

[toxictrix]

"The underground Artists" is too disconnected from the rest of it. Maybe make it a bit bigger and move it down a little? Otherwise I like it.

 

[decksnap]

Am I having a senior moment or is the apostrophe on the word 'artists' completely unnecessary?

Also, even if it was, you'd want to hang it out and align the e, d, s and f better.

 

[IgnatiusTheKing]

It's a nice start. If I was doing it, I'd add a little light texture to the gray space.

is the apostrophe on the word 'artists' completely unnecessary?

Not only unnecessary, but completely incorrect. Good catch.

 

[DewGuy1999]

Here's a what if...

• Get rid of the circles.
• Make a black bar that's a little bit taller than the word "Detroit" and the full width of the cityscape, place it at the bottom of the cityscape.
• Move the drips to the bottom of the black bar.
• Reverse "Detroit" out of the black bar, centered top to bottom and flush right.
• Move "The Underground Artists of" to the left of "Detroit" also reversed out of the black bar and flush right to the left side of "Detroit".
• Change the typeface on the byline to something sanserif and a bit bolder to give it some weight and importance on the gray background.

 

[no.1 Apple Fan]

Maybe remove the "By" and make your friends name larger and centered across the bottom.