I'm working on the cover design for The Answer to Atheist's Handbook by Richard Wurmbrand and I'd love honest opinions from fresh eyes. 🕯 Cover A — Dark and dramatic: candle casting a cross shadow against a brick wall. Simple, moody, mysterious. 📖 Cover B — Rich and ornate: navy blue with gold borders, an arched frame, and radiant light behind the cross. Classic and elegant. Which one would make you pick this book off a shelf?
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Wrong colors, wrong impression. You really don't want any religious symbols, if you are promoting atheism.
Talk more about why atheism.
There has been far too much talk about why not religion. The points against religion has been over emphasized. Not that they are invalid.
Religion itself, does that type of repetitive brainwashing. So the approach needs to be far more positive about atheism itself.
Atheism is perceived as negative, because of that over emphasis against religion.
Think positive, as well as make a "positive" cover approach. That actually is as well a atheistic approach.
In marketing, the positive approach works better, than the negative divisive approach. Your cover needs to be that positive.
I'll give you a bad example that shouldn't be taken. Your second cover is far too much like "Buckland's Complete book of witchcraft" cover. That book already has a negative connotation.
@DeWayfarer Thank you for the detailed thoughts. Just to clarify though — the book isn't promoting atheism, it's actually a Christian response to it. and that’s why the religious imagery is very much intentional.
