The original cover, designed by the very talented Rodrigo Corral, falls flat of truly capturing what it is like to think like a great graphic designer. The visual of push pins on a crit wall gets the point across but greater opportunity existed to push this cover even further conceptually.
In the redesigned book cover of Debbie Millman's How To Think Like A Great Graphic Designer, I illustrated a designer's need to problem solve using a die cut cover that entices the viewer to solve the mystery of the book's title. Each underscore has a color that associates to one of the letters on the cover spelling out the answer to those who are looking. The answer is then revealed when the viewer opens the cover. The cover forces you to think only to find out the answer is to think in the end.