March 12th, 2010Our A Taste of True Blood poll went so well, we wanted to do it again—this time for our upcoming book on Glee.
Part of me feels like this is a no-brainer. But I would have picked the cover that lost (by a lot) last time around . . . so that shows how much I know, right? Let us know what you think!
Your contestants:
A 
B 
B
(Both covers were designed by Nate Salciccioli over at Faceout Studio, the folks I know I’d want to work for if I had any artistic talent.)
We’ll leave this poll up until next Friday, and let you know how it turned out then!
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at 8:54 pm
This sounds like a fun book, but I don’t love either cover. The megaphone evokes Sue Sylvester — and while she’s a fun part of the series, she’s usually thoroughly anti-Glee — making her an odd choice to represent the show. Graphically, I don’t care for the way the megaphone covers up part of “filled.” And on the green cover — at least on my screen — the gold letters and star get swallowed up by the very bright green background. The yellow cover pops much better, but I like the composition of the green one. Just my two cents.
at 8:18 pm
Both cents are very much appreciate.
I had the same uneasiness about using Sue/Cheerios-related imagery for the cover . . . but it does do a great job of making sure everyone who walks past it knows what the book is about!
at 10:36 am
Fair enough! And maybe it’s actually Quinn’s megaphone, anyway.
at 10:02 am
i basically agree with ella. i think if you made the star bigger, so it was more a background to the whole title, that might work.
at 6:53 pm
Like the yellow and red but switch it to the other cover design…Yellow curtains and seats (vary huges), read lettering and bigger gold star.
at 9:51 pm
I don’t even watch Glee and I know that the megaphone isn’t an appropriate association and the green cover is blah. Personally, I’d suggest going back to the drawing board, however if I had to select one of those it would be the green.
at 2:08 pm
I, too, have to admit that I’m not terribly impressed. I would lean toward something with a person’s torso in it (the head cut off, but clearly supposed to be someone from the show – probably Kurt), perhaps doing jazz hands or something … or maybe show a picture of the legs and feet of a bunch of people on risers, which would elicit the show choir feel. Just some ideas.
Based just on what I’m seeing, I overall agree – I like the red and yellow motif, but actually like the green graphic a bit better.
Also, as a pet peeve … I don’t like that the title is in lowercase. I’d say the only reason to put the title in lowercase is if you’re going to capitalize the L in gLee to go with the “Loser” finger sign motif in a lot of their marketing … which, I assume, is probably protected by some sort of trademark or copyright. (Although, I wonder if you could make an L out of the megaphone…) Since you’re using the capital L, I’d say just go ahead and capitalize the title normally.
at 6:20 pm
I agree that the megaphone is a somewhat “anti-glee” symbol- but as far a graphic dynamic- the yellow megaphone is more attention grabbing. the star is a a little small