The cover to A Guy's Guide to Giving Gifts, also designed by Dianne Gibson and featured in Graphis Design Annual 2005, uses humour to illustrate the book's content. The chord with which the book seems to be wrapped alludes to a particularly unwise choice of present for Valentines or Christmas, as does the fact that the cover mimics a brown paper package wrapping stamped with the words "Return to Sender." The credits are written on masking tape at the edgges of the book and the designer plays with our expectations of depth as we cannot tell whether the chord is two or three dimensional. An analogous color scheme of red, pink, and orange is used; while a hand-made font in the title card adds humour and whimsy to the piece.
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I like the idea. It reminds me of the Red Green show. most things are fixed with duct tape.
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