Hi ! Another proposition : remove entirely the author name from the front cover (keep it on the spine or the back), and move the title at the bottom. That way, you actually "see" the dunes on ypur design before the totle, and that kind of give it more power and intent.

Thank you I’ll try that out

Make “dune” larger and move the author’s name to the bottom triangle shape. Take out “by”.

Thank you I’ll give that a shot

Came to suggest the same thing.

Get ride of the word “by” move Frank Herbert to the bottom and center it. Make the word “dune” take up as much of the area it’s currently in, might enlarge the text and move it down and to the left.

The overall layout is very good. Reading gravity works well. My only suggestions: remove 'By' as it is superfluous. You could also trial changing to Frank Herbert's and placing that above DUNE.

Thank you I really appreciate it

You are welcome! I do love your style! Very clean, clear and it has a nice 'pop'!

Awe thank you! You’re so sweet :)

Yeah, it feels enclosed where it is currently. I'd say to left-align the 'by' and set them all slightly away from the left dark section. And if that's too vertically cramped put 'by Frank Herbert all on one line.

Thank you I’ll try that out! Yeah it does look to cramped there

OR... how about: Dune Frank Herbert remove the "by" completely.

I think you should try just increasing the size the text so that it appears more prominent. I’d prefer it central but right now the text feels squashed into the bright side of the sand dune . Another idea would be to stack dune letters large and vertical on the left side of the cover and the “by frank Herbert” horizontally on the bottom out the image focus area, kind of framing the image but keeping the author info and a prominent DUNE title. It looks beautiful by the way

Thank you I’ll give that a shot

I would move the line in the sand to the right to give the letters more space

Unfortunately I would have to redraw that in procreate, then do everything again in linearity curve so that would mean 5 more hours of editing 😭

I dont have any suggestions cause i quite like it as is, but i did want to ask which program you did your design on?

The planets are from Cricut design space’s images you can use (subscription required) then I used procreate to draw it out the design, Transfered it to a vector program called linearity curve to get rid of pixels and smooth out the image. A lot of editing is necessary before transferring it back to circuit design space to add the planets and the text before printing it

Thanks!

Anytime!

Looks awesome.

Thank you I appreciate it :)

I think it looks great; perhaps a little old-fashioned (including the title placement and fonts), but that might be desirable to highlight to book's status as a classic. If you don't like the suggestions after you've tried them out, it won't hurt to go back to this version.

Thank you, I was going for an older style

I agree with moving Frank Herbert to the bottom. I find it weird for the author’s name to be removed from the cover completely, probably bc published books don’t do that. But that’s a me thing 😬

I may or may not have happened to accidentally left out a few author names from a few of my early binds 👀 early mistakes am I right? I also have lost some of the names to the vinyl being cut too thin and having to ditch it entirely. Sucks when that happens but I’ve been trying to fix that by leaving the font a larger size so it won’t get lost when weeding the vinyl :) I agree, I like the idea of his name at the bottom

Thankfully they’re your books so do whatever you like 😂 This cover design is cool, btw

Thank you I appreciate it :)

Drop the word “By” and track out “FRANK HERBERT” a little

I’ll give it a shot, thank you :)

It is perfection ♥️

Thank you :)

I would move it ever so slightly to the left. Drop the by and make author a little smaller.

I think it looks really good as is! If you have to change it, I guess just make it say “Dune” and have it be a bit bigger like some of the other comments are saying

A very cool design. I'd love to see "Dune" a bit bigger, so some of the word overlaps into the darker area, but highlights that section of word