A Year from Monday

A Year from Monday is a book of lectures and writings from John Cage. The first thing that comes to mind when I look at this cover is boring, but it might not be as boring as the grey and black color scheme makes it first appear. To start, the book illustration does cover both the front and the back while connecting at the spine. The illustration is simply John Cage's initials sized to fit the cover. The "J" and the "C" are both in different shades of grey and tilted to create balance in their bottom curves. The title is very interesting and stands out well. There is hierarchy found in this title by putting the word "year" inside of the illustration and not just making it a lighter shade of grey, but going all the way in the other direction and making it a bright clean white. This makes the word "year" stand out as an important part of the title. The next type to follow are the words "From Monday" and the author's credit. Both the last half of the title and the author's name are in a thin sans serif font that keeps flow by staying in the sans serif family, while showing division by staying thinner in weight. There is also balance and proper alignment by aligning the barcode on the back with the title on the front. The only things that I dislike about this are that there is no text on the spine for recognition and that the colors are very boring. Even though I think the colors are kinda boring, after looking at this cover more I am starting to see that it is going for a more simplistic, sophisticated look that black, grey, and white can give. I think this cover works well.