Okay, there is a lot of valuable information in this book to help novice designers make nicer-looking work, but… am I the only person who thinks this is the most hideous cover design ever? It’s like a bad mexican resaurant menu, only worse. The font, the colors and the ghetto clip arts all make me want to gauge my eyeballs out. And the back… oh god… it’s got bevel/emboss… NOOOOOOO!!! All the design on the interior of the book is fine, I don’t know how the cover went so horribly awry. Someone recommended I read this (which, to be honest, I’m kind of pissed about since the implication seemed to be that I’m an incompetent designer. So I centered some text… Sue me! It looked like ass when I left or right justified it!) But, seriously, how can a book telling people the priciples of design have such a heinous cover? Exercise #1 in the book should have been “Redesign the cover of this book to make it actually look like a credible reference.”