The picture you see below is the book cover designed by gray318 for The Mayor's Tongue, a novel written by Nathaniel Rich.
“‘The Mayor’s Tongue’ begins when two guys who work for a moving company in New York form an unlikely friendship...Alvaro speaks only Cibaeño, “virtually incomprehensible to natives of the other Spanish-speaking countries in the Caribbean”; Eugene speaks English and Italian. The friends are unable to communicate, and yet they converse feelingly, or at least they think they do. Alvaro is writing a novel that he asks Eugene to translate, and Eugene believes that he is able to capture the essence of the story, even without knowing the language.”
—Sophie Gee, author of the New York Times' Sunday Book Review for The Mayor's Tongue.
I really enjoyed following the words across the cover; I think it goes well with the subject of communication that appears in The Mayor's Tongue. When I first saw the cover design, its animated quality reminded me of Filippo Marinetti's pattern poetry in his Les mots en liberté futuristes (Futurist Words-in-Freedom) of 1919:
On a side note, this is also a great book whose cover text takes the shape of a hand:
It's Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
