It is my goal currently that one day I may graduate with a degree in visual graphics and eventually work for a publishing house designing book covers for novels. In these two images one can see the many differences between good graphic cover design and chaotically bad cover design.

In the first image of the well known cover of the popular book written by Stieg Larsson, "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo." In this design one can see how the composition of visual elements can lend to a very interesting and eye catching design. The title of the novel, with its interesting and flowing placement throughout the page guides the eye throughout the page, creating an abstract image while still remaining legible and readable. Over all I absolutely love this cover because of its simple complexities of limited color, and composition.

In the second image one can see how oddly mishmeshed compositions can lead to a structurally bad design. In this cover for the motivational book "Pocket the Best Jobs in the World" we obviously see the visualization of the title in the central image, the earth peeking out of the back pockets of someones blue jeans. However, after that one piece of clever imagery all other components of the cover are splattered across the page. The title is in a too small, odd script font in an out of place red stroked white coloring at the top center of the page, and the rest of the cover is a heavenly blurred mesh of golden yellows and whites disguising some unidentifiable background image. Over all in this cover design too many 'fancy' decorative elements were stuffed into one small page, and their placement of these numerous elements were not thought out enough, which is what I hope to avoid doing in my future career.