01. Intro
Graphic Design
Allow our award-winning book cover designers and formatting experts the privilege and the opportunity to help bring your vision to reality, to design a book cover and interior that captures the essence of your writing. With over 15 years combined experience in the design and advertising industry and more than 200 covers designed in the past 3 years, our book cover designers are highly skilled at turning abstract concepts into powerful and effective imagery, and with access to a database of over 40 million royalty-free images, you never need to be concerned about image licensing or royalty costs.
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02. The Brief
Graphic Design
You’ve discovered the next Hemingway. And it's time to sell this book with a beautiful book cover. Contact us now and our designers will create a cover that your readers will love, guaranteed.
Research the Market
Consider some guidelines: Genre sells better in paperback while literary fiction, thrillers, and biographies sell well in hardcover. If it’s a book a reader might take on a plane or to the beach, it needs to be a paperback. Libraries prefer hardcovers. Keep price point in mind: don’t design a $34.00 hardback for a Young Adult title (which tend to be priced around $12 and max out at $17.99).
Design Direction
Consider what your design direction will be and how it will fit the author’s vision of the book. Visit to a local bookstore can be useful in the design process if you hit a wall.
What the Design Needs to Emphasize
Think of the cover or front of the dust jacket as an extension of the marketing plan for the book. What’s the most important element of the story—the thing that makes it unique—that will help a reader select the book? Is it a character in the book? The style of writing? The setting where the book takes place or topic in history it covers? If the book is similar to a hugely successful blockbuster, think about ways you can subtly evoke that title without creating a cheap copy.
03. Feedback
Graphic Design
Sometimes a “great cover” is not a great cover for a particular book. The more sets of eyes you get on the design, the more you’ll be able to evaluate whether a cover is sending the right message to a broad audience. Start with your own judgment and then move to the author. From there, let outsiders sample the cover free of context. Ask them what their assumptions are about the book.
Book Cover Design.
Allow our award-winning book cover designers and formatting experts the privilege and the opportunity to help bring your vision to reality, to design a book cover and interior that captures the essence of your writing.
Task
With over 15 years combined experience in the design and advertising industry and more than 200 covers designed in the past 3 years, our book cover designers are highly skilled at turning abstract concepts into powerful and effective imagery, and with access to a database of over 40 million royalty-free images, you never need to be concerned about image licensing or royalty costs.
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Date
October 19, 2018
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Skills
Graphic design
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Client
Next Century Publishing
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Tags
book cover, book cover design, graphic design, magazine design
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