Book Cover · Ayman Sadiq & Sakib Bin Rashid · 2020
- Book Cover Designer
- Asif Hossain
- Authors
- Ayman Sadiq, Sakib Bin Rashid
- Publisher
- Adhyayan Prokashoni
- Year
- 2020
The book
Two authors, scared of their own title.
Ayman Sadiq and Sakib Bin Rashid began planning this book at 25. Then years went by, because they were afraid of what people would say about two young online teachers writing it.
বোঝে কম, বকে বেশি“Knows little, talks a lot.” The line they expected to hear.
They wrote it anyway. So the cover had one job: put everyone’s opinions in the same frame as two people who have stopped caring.
It starts with one comment.
Then everyone has an opinion.
So the book gives you a switch.
The launch cover
The first cover stopped listening, literally.
The book launched in this amber cover. We took its subtitle at its word: if people won’t stop talking, block your ears.
- Pillows and headphones. One author muffles the noise and the other drowns it out.
- Comment rain. On the back, the comments pour down the page and bounce off two umbrellas.
- Play and pause. A thin player bar runs along the top, a nod to the video classes that made both authors known.
Launch cover designed by Asif Hossain and Sadman Sadik. Character cut-outs edited by Sadman Sadik.
The reprint cover
Then the noise moved into a phone.
When the book went back to print, I redrew the same idea around the place these comments actually reach us.
- A phone for a back cover. Real comments spill out of the screen and past its edges.
- Black and white authors. The photos step back, so the yellow title is the loudest thing on the cover.
- Sticker edges. White cut lines keep the two of them playful, and the binoculars ask who’s watching.
The lettering
Same three words, two voices.
The flaps
The joke keeps going on the flaps.
Each flap gives one author a short bio and one more pose: Sakib belts out a song into a microphone, and Ayman grins and points up at nothing in particular.
