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Teneo

a novella

Bold, clear concept book cover for Adult Autism

Bold, clear and simple concept with vibrant and positive colors. Focus on the title and what the book is about without distraction.

Between Memory and Oblivion

No time for books? Michael Ashe, a young antiquarian bookseller in Los Angeles, must confront the fact that his once-thriving business is collapsing. Even librarians have turned their backs on books, while pouring money into electronic data. But Ashe refuses to admit defeat. He continues to hunt for rare tomes in Mexico City and Paris, while struggling with his loneliness and searching for a woman to love. Along the way he learns the startling story of the best-read man in France. A man who founded a great library to preserve knowledge against the ravishes of time.

Lost in the Wild

A Journey of Healing Told Through Poetry and Prose by Anna Tankersley

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Book cover for "Nacht der Mörder"

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Book cover for "You Are Not Safe"

The Beginner’s AI Advantage Ebook Cover

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The Ultimate First-Time Dad's Manual

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Turn Out the Lights Ebook Cover

Book cover for "Valley Forge and Yan'an"

Raise happy successful kids

The Headache Solution Ebook Cover

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The Man's No B.S. Guide To A Better Self Ebook Cover

YOLO (You only live once)

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Book Cover for Das Septemberhaus

The client required a new fresh design concept for a German market. Since the story is set in a Victorian house where new owners deal with supernatural experiences in a possessed house, an idea came to my mind to go with an illustration-based concept depicting a Victorian house as the backdrop and the raven with red eye as the front focus point. Surrounding are symmetrical leafless bumpy branches in vivid orange color. The concept is generally reduced in colors.

Haiku Book Cover

Soulknit

Short stories about pets and their people

Caught - Historical Novel

I wanted to create a cinematic layout that screamed historical romance. The woman was photo manipulated to resemble the characteristics of the heroine and the duel scene at the back cover was created out of different stock elements. I also added some aging effects to the title font to make it look more appropriate for this genre and give a more unique feel to the overall layout.

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Fantasy cover for a book like Lord of the Rings

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Horror Book Cover

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Nostalgic and Eye-Catching Book Cover

This eye-catching and dynamic cover design brings the excitement of classic crosswords to life with bold retro aesthetics! A striking vintage car, soaring rocket, and vibrant typography create an irresistible sense of nostalgia and energy, drawing puzzle lovers in at first glance. The strong composition centers around the crossword theme, making it clear that this book is designed for hours of engaging fun. With a best-selling appeal and large-print format, this cover is designed to grab attention and promise an enjoyable experience for seniors and adults alike. Perfect for anyone who loves brain-teasing entertainment wrapped in a stylish, vintage-inspired look!

ADHD Relationship Toolkit for Couples

Out of the Box

Vivian Awakened

Powerful cover for an erotic book that will catch attention

Prisoner

Poetry

Self-help book about dating

Messias

The Girl With No Past

The Greater You

The AI Playbook for Beginners: Master the Fundamentals of Generative AI, ChatGPT & Machine Learning to 10x Productivity, Enhance Creativity and Optimize Everyday Life

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Freedom

This book is a self-help book aimed at people that want to have more than they do already, who know there's more to life and want to go out and get it. About making dreams a reality, about living a great life.

Treasures from the Sea of Chi Publishing needs a new book cover

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Book cover for F*CK SEX

This book is about saying Fuck Sex! It's about saying no to sex as we know it. In order to liberate sexual desire, a person needs to be able to be free to choose, to say no, and to say yes. Target audience: People having sex, mostly women with low sexual desire or their partners trying to find a solution.

Submit | A novel

Submit Leete, a young woman in Nova Scotia from a Tory family, marries a British Captain twice her age. When he dies and she remarries his much younger protege too soon afterwards, Submit’s step-daughter suspects the worst and vows revenge.

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Book cover for “Help! Ik Verveel Me” by Karin van Driel

“Help! Ik Verveel Me” (translated from Dutch "Help! I’m bored") is the story about Sarah, an 11 years old girl, and a crazy idea of her parents: a week without a phone. Without it, Sarah doesn't know what to do. But because she is bored, she dreams about so many things and she finds out that a little boredom is not so bad. It makes her creative. The design was made using some of the illustrations of Charmaine Lam, that also appear in the interior of the book. As these illustrations represent drawings as being made by a child, I kept the same style in order to respect the initial vision of the illustrator and the author. I had to dedicate a special attention to all the new elements that were added to the book cover. For that, I followed the same kind of trace and textures of the existing images. However, the colors were slightly intensified to catch the attention of the viewers. The choice of fonts also helped to give a certain “childish style” to the entire design.

Shakespeare's Witch

Set against the first production of Macbeth in 1606, Shakespeare’s Witch is a seductive tale of the origins of the curse of the Scottish Play.

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Book cover and illustrations for “The Mysterious Fire” by Ieasha Powell

This is the final result of several projects to produce all the graphic elements for the first book of the “Wonders of Windsor Mystery Series”, which stories talk about the adventures of a small group of children in their hometown. The original characters were designed by Sharad Kumar and Manel Mendoza. The following characters, that appear throughout this story, were created by me with the same technic of the first ones (in Adobe Illustrator). The biggest challenge designing the book cover, but specially when making the illustrations, was to keep faithful to the original style and physiognomy of each character, while putting them in different poses and situations. It was important that they would gain life but still being easily recognized. The other elements of the book, like the symbols of each chapter, as well as the representation of the series, were made following the same graphic line of the logo, that I had previously designed.

The day we met - Collection of stories about love at first sight

The idea was to portray a chance meeting of a boy and a girl on the cover and to have the same couple leave together at the back.

Book cover for "Letters from Katie Luther" by Shirley Casemier

This design was a layout proposal and was never published. It was created for a fictionalized biography, aimed for 8-12 age children (mostly girls). In this novel Ave shares the letters of her best friend Katie and recounts her memories from the time they escaped a convent as young adults (where they were nuns), until Katie’s death at the age of 53. The story is set in Western Germany from 1523 to 1552, in the time of the Protestant Reformation. Therefore, my main attention was to have all the clothing and other details representative of this specific period in time. As the letters sent between the two friends are the main focus of the entire story, I’ve decided to use a font in the title (and in the header of the back cover text) that could represent the handwriting of one of the women.

Stripped

book cover contest winner

The book you hold in your hands will show you in 6 easy-to-follow practical steps how to never worry about low sales again, ever. I have used the same 6 Ps System to train all the sales teams in my 12 companies how to sell big-ticket products to customers from all around the globe. I designed the 6 Ps System 20 years ago, and my companies still use it today to sell high-ticket products and services to large multinational organizations, and it still works perfectly.

Book cover for “A Place for Grayson” by Kaitlin Kalagher

This book is about Grayson, a young adult that struggles with drug addiction and his girlfriend, Emily, a recovering alcoholic. Emily takes her sobriety very seriously, while Grayson has not been able to make that commitment yet. Instead of showing the characters, I decided to go for a more symbolic approach, in order to make it different from the common romance books. I used the contrast between cold and warm tones to transmit the concept of “choices” that the characters need to make in their lives. In this design the blue tones represent the sad and numb life of addiction, the struggles and the dramatic consequences… and the yellow/orange tones represent the recovery and the achievement of finally become sober. Grayson is still struggling in a “cold life”, while Emily has already overcome her battle. The orange flower is Emily that blossoms from branches that seem to be almost dry. While Grayson is still the cold reflex in the water of what can become his future.

Book cover for “Bebop – Lesson Book” by Richie Zellon

This is the first book of the Guitar Improv Series, a comprehensive guide to jazz improvisation. The author and jazz musician, Richie Zellon, wanted an illustration that could represent the flow of his music, as well as a vintage style similar to the jazz covers of the early/mid 20th century. Since the majority of those covers followed Cubism, I created an illustration with similar traces of that specific art movement. As I’m not a painter it was a big challenge, but also a great opportunity to study more in detail all the aspects of Cubism and Abstract Art and the paintings of specific artists. The illustration has a visible influence in the work of Kandinsky, because of the flow and unpredictability of his traces, just like the jazz improvisations. Another detail requested by the author was to include in some way his hat, which easily identifies him in all his performances.

Nomad

Heroes Of World War 2 Book Cover

The Paris plot - Adventure thriller

I tried to create a simple, elegant, yet dynamic cover that would be eye catching as a thumbnail and would stand out on the shelves. I wanted to combine a stylish noir atmosphere with a splash of color, to make it look more contemporary.

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Book cover for “The House Sitter” by Jeanie Green

This design was made for a fictional drama/romance which story, filled with family dynamics, is set in an equestrian property in Australia. The main requests from the author were a design with an air of luxury (with details in gold) and the picture of her own mare Anastasia — “I want it to stand out in an almost 3D effect”. Therefore, I decided to place the image of the horse in a very large scale and also with an effect where it seems to get out of the page. Its body extends to the back cover, giving a deep dark contrast to the entire design. This creates a very dramatic appearance but also a sophisticated style, helped by the warm golden tones on the background and on the title. Then, I made a line drawing of the house, from the picture that the client had provided of the property in which the story takes place, and I included it on the title... almost as if it were part of its “Logo”.

The Book of Ku

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Anatomy - Karina Vigil

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Book cover for “Inte som du tror” by Anna Karlsson

Inte som du tror (translated from Swedish "Not as you think") is a story that mainly takes place in a school, about two girls with ages around 13 years old. It talks about how the two girls deal with each other and how their attitudes may hide more severe and private problems. One of the important details of the story is the finding of an old diary written in the 19th century by a girl of the same age. This diary inspires one the girls to start reading the Bible and pray to God for the other one. That is why I placed one of the main characters as a central point of the cover, holding an old book, while the other girl is seen on the top almost hidden in the middle of her long blonde hair. As the target group for this book will be teens but also adults, the author didn’t want it to signal teen’s fiction too much.

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Married couple Drew and Sarah's are going through a financial rough patch, and with another baby on the way, Drew decides to make some extra cash buy writing erotic fiction. Before long Sarah is in on the act as well. What follows are a series of hilarious misunderstandings and mishaps as the middle-aged couple try to inject some heat into their steamy novel.

In Rage at Peace

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Orphaned

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Book cover for O Meu Mestre Animal

Paperback with flaps. A self-development book through animals (especially dogs and cats) life lessons. The goal of the book is to make people happier through knowledge of life, love, death, harmony, self love and so one. Another goal is to help people connect more with the true essence of their animals.

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Book Cover for Bleed

Task: Simple, Crisp, Bloody - Horror Book Cover

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Naked Confidence

The Rebirth of You

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Small Talk Powerful impact

Don't Kiss and Sell

Book cover for “Rummet innanför” by Anna Karlsson

“Rummet innanför” (translated from Swedish "The room inside") is the sequel of “Inte som du tror”, which book cover I had previously designed. Some events and details on the story led to the choice of the elements in the design. The main characters — Bella, Miranda and Erik — are on summer holiday. Bella is searching for answers about her family's history, after finding a revealing picture. Miranda is haunted by memories from a fire at her school. Erik is working at a soccer school for kids. As requested, the main scenario needed to also include a mansion, as well as a sports car. As in many books which target audience are teens, it was important to give some clues but without revealing too much of the plot. I followed the same style of the first book, as well as the placement of the characters and background effects. However, to better distinguish both books, I used a different color scheme with fresh tones to make the connection with summer season.

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Rue des Eises (Book 1)

The druid Lirg grows up burdened with a daunting task. Long ago, the Mist transformed the icy kingdom of the Sinterung into a muddy wasteland, forcing its people to flee to the peaks of the Umbra Mountains. Forgotten by the rest of the world, they endure in the warrior fortress of Fastig, awaiting the fulfillment of a fragmented prophecy: as the bearer of the magical Cube, Lirg is destined to summon the ice back and lead the Ice Clans home

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Book cover for “The true story of Inky, Pinky and the troublesome tattoos” by Bruce M Firestone

This is a children’s book that tells the story of Inky, a boy with a “special power”: he makes people happy by touching them with his index finger. But there is one drawback. Every time he touches someone, he leaves behind a small Inky tattoo, like an "i" inside a circle. This is the first book in the series, where the boy tries to learn how he can make people happy without touching them, because none of his friends want any more Inky tattoos. Until he meets Pinky. She's always sad so Inky tries his super power on her. And guess what? It doesn't work on her. I created the illustration for this design, following the examples and descriptions given by the author, to perfectly match with the two main characters in the story. The vibrant colors were chosen not only to catch the attention of the children but also to transmit a joyful and positive atmosphere.

Girl Submerged - Romantic Exotic Adventure

Book cover for “Night Briars” by Taryn Tyler

This design was a layout proposal and was never published. Based off of Grimm’s fairy tales, this is a romance between two women that explores the nuances of what happens after “Happily ever after”. Their names — Rose and Snow — allowed not only to give a symbolic representation of the characters, but also to show the contrasts of what unfolds during the story. As the plot begins with the arrival of an invitation to the King’s wedding, followed by the court life and the castle’s secrets, this building took also an important place in the entire design. Since the client wanted the cover to embody dark romance reminiscent of a gothic novel, I decided to use a very dark palette, with high contrasts and grainy textures. This graphic style, and also the only color (Red) present in the design, helped to highlight even more the main element: the rose with the snow.

The strange life of Brandon Chambers - Psychological thriller

The first thing that popped to mind when i read the book's plot about a young man who studies phychology and starts having hallucinations, was the Rorschach test. That's why i decided to use as my main design element a Rorschach inkblot. The inkblot was painted from scratch in Photoshop. I think the shape, apart from the meaning of it, conveys a sense of mystery that suits the genre perfectly.

Book cover for "Marta's Dream" by Alyson Manes

This design was created for a Christian romantic fiction for readers between 35-65. It is an Amish novel about innocence and unrequited love. Since the story is set during the summer in a farm, the client requested a design in earth tones and of the fall harvest - hay piles, wheat fields or of golden corn. As the landscape spreads to the back cover, it gives a sense of vastness, like a field that never ends, but it also helps to balance the entire book cover.

Book cover for "Breaking Regulations" by Victor Serrano

"Breaking Regulations" is science fiction disguised as dark fantasy. Most of the book takes place in the outer section of a cylindrical generation ship that is mainly croplands and walled towns. The main character is Marcus, a mercenary swordsman. The design has a dark and mysterious atmosphere, not only to match the story, but also to better catch the attention and curiosity of the potential buyers/readers. Not showing too much of the interior of the ship, also allows everyone to imagine it in its own way, when they read the descriptions on the book.

Book cover for "70AD – The Final week of Daniel's 70 Week Prophecy"

Literary Fiction

This is the cover for the hardback edition of "Die Schulter des Riesen". A literary fiction novel by Raffael Rauhenberg.

Book cover for "A Dinner Date with The Mad Duck" by Princess Umul Hatiyya Ibrahim Mahama

This book is the record of an intense, probing and ultimately life-transforming conversation between two people. One of the requests from the author was to include the figure of an "eccentric duck" in a dinner table eating sushi. With a complex photomanipulation I was able to create such character, giving it a positive appearance but without having a cartoonish style. Some details like the hat and the bow tie helped to give it a more "human" personality. Just to add a final touch, the landscape on the background also intensified how improbable would be such scenery.

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"Add Cyanide to Taste" is a collection of short stories with recipes, dark and delicious. How dark? Fourteen stories range from suspense to crime fiction with a pinch of horror. The recipes include the dishes featured in the stories. Most recipes are vegetarian. All recipes are cyanide-free.

Book Cover for E.L. Todd

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