I’ve been dissatisfied with the cover of my book (link) for a while. The old cover was kind of okay, but the red text block with the title, subtitle and author was a generic template from the Amazon Kindle cover designer. The whole cover was kind of boring.
The new cover is designed to be a little bit “louder”. High contrast, big letters, looks really great and distinctive, even when shrinked to thumbnail-size. I’m happy how it turned out.
I kept the misty forrest in the background because I like it as a metaphor for a vast dataset that is impossible to take in with a single look. Something so large that it’s easy to get lost in there and not being able to see the wood for the trees.
The washing machine is obviously a play at the “clean data” that we’re all after. Running something through a washing machine takes time and a lot of “iteration cycles”, just like building a data product.
Benjamin Greve 