A Clockwork Orange Book Cover - Lemony Snicket and Harry Potter Book Covers

Having looked at the previous Clockwork Orange book covers I was undecided as to if I should use some form of imagery or not. There's a famous saying that a picture paints a thousand words, but a book has hundreds of thousands of words, so surely a single image is not enough to be suitable for a book.

The idea of books is that you use the words to create your own images in your mind, and having imagery can have an influence over what you picture in your mind without you knowing. They can also be quite misleading, for example, the illustrations on the front of the "Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events" books are very similar to the ones on the Harry Potter books, the most successfully sold book series of all time, in an attempt to lead the consumer to think they're similar books.

For these reasons I'm keeping my cover purely type-based.

 

Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events

 

Harry Potter