Monkey Fish the Book

  

So that design firm I mentioned before is called Tokyo Pistol and this is a book cover design from them. I won't lie, I picked this one because of it's very intense typographic elements but originally I thought it was for a zoo or some kind of circus. It's not, but I still like the typography in this piece and I could see it on the cover of a book. I do not like the graphic elements however, but luckily I'm not here to talk about those. What I assume is the title of the book does exactly what I title should do; it catches me attention without being too intimidating, it looks very intense and important and adds to the hierarchy of the work. The pure white and black fonts do what they should, they're exciting looking, not perfect but don't grab my attention as much as the title does. The only thing I really have an issue with is the red font. Both the red on white and the red on black; the red on black looks okay at best on the gray white, and then gets lost and hurts my eyes to look at on the orange. The red on white just doesn't work at all for me, it looks transparent and event though I can't read it just looking at it strains my eyes. The more I look at this piece the less I have to admit I like it, but if I were just looking for a book it would surely catch my attention.