In this moody and romantic medieval scene, we see the far away horizon line which provides plenty of depth, and the castle which adds mystery and intrigue. The woman adds captivation and history to the foreground of the scene.
Don't you love trains? Shown is a fictionalized representation of a Russian train on the Trans Siberian Railroad. Note the frozen tundra of the Russian landscape. Kind of reminds one of the movie "Dr. Zhivago." Cover is reproduced with permission of the author.
From the popular humorist Irene Woodbury. The bright red and pink suggest the love interest, and the computer with the crime scene banners across it suggest mystery.
Notice the contrast of a huge nature scene in the background, and a woman quietly reading a book sitting on her luggage in the foreground. This scene creates interest, color and beauty.
Science Fiction and Fantasy are wonderful genres to design for, because you can let your imagination run wild a little bit, seeking colorful and mysterious settings with the excitement and drama of looking to the distant future.
Yes, we offer children's book cover design! Sue Skelding's popular Vet Kids Club series offers exciting journeys and stories for kids, including all kinds of animal adventures which they love.
Kind of a whimsical look on her face: not too sad, and yet not smiling either. The photographer had titled his photograph “Dreary Beauty.” It seemed perfect for this book, Beautiful Dreamer.
Designers love short titles! This is probably the shortest title featured in this portfolio. Another well-known classic example of a really cool short title is Jaws.
In this instance, red is the color that brings home the idea that we are talking about a horror story here. The black-and-white scene helps depict sadness in its lack of color. Possibly also hearkens back to the horror movie craze in the b&w movies of the 1940s and 1950s.
This is one of a series of books in the Cozy Mystery genre. Cozy Mystery is a relatively new sub-genre of Crime Fiction, where sex, violence, and cursing are kept to a minimum, and often happen off stage. The tone of cozies is generally light, comedic, and comforting. The series is cleverly titled A Drop of Mystery.
Book 2 in the Irish Blessing Series. The fonts are the same as Book 1 (shown at the top of this page), and yet with a different picture, the mood is different. But the style of the illustration in Book 1 and Book 2 are the same, which shows consistency and good branding.
S G D Singh is a popular author in the YA Urban Fantasy Adventure genre. As for In the Heart of Babylon, everything in this cover means something, from the symbol in the middle to the dragonfly and the watercolor background. Add the distressed font and colors, and we have the perfect cover that she wants and that will work well for her fans.
Colorful and bright, the mood of this cover is pleasant in such a way that it becomes uplifting to the viewer, knowing that they are in for a light read, without too much drifting into adversity or darkness of spirit.
Genre: Historic Fiction. Readers like to see at least one of the main characters in the cover of the book, so that they can put a face with the story. This cover hopes to create drama by emphasizing the contrast between the fighting in the background and the sweet and innocent young woman in the foreground.
Author Oliver F. Chase offers this legal and medical thriller in his popular Phil Pfeiffer series. Oliver told me that he wanted a very readable font, for which the title could be easily read from a distance. I think we achieved that goal!
We took the picture of this model for this book cover. The fancy font treatment serves to attract the attention of potential readers. Combined with the beautiful young model, the cowboy hat and the skyline of Nashville, it's a winning cover for this author.
This third installment in the Irish Blessing series intensifies the action, utilizing a medieval scene with plenty of color and movement. Over the years, knights fighting dragons and such have come to symbolize good versus evil, a metaphor worthy of this particular collection of stories.
The second in a series of two, keeping the same basic design but changing the picture of the woman and the science-fiction scenery. Science Fiction and Fantasy are wonderful genres to design for: You can let your imagination run wild a little bit, seeking colorful and mysterious settings with the excitement and drama of looking to the future.
Part of a series called Ocean Edge - A trilogy of books in the romantic fiction genre. Romantic fiction usually gives me a chance to create a cover that is beautiful, instead of one that is maybe evil or dark in some way.
This cover attempts to show wonder and uncertainty. This is achieved by the mood of the picture itself, and also the cropping is a little bit unusual, as the figure and the title are placed off center. And of course not showing the face helps to add to the mystery and intrigue.
Sometimes you don't have to use too many design tricks to create the right cover. In this instance, all that was needed was just a beautiful young woman, some beautiful scenery, and the right font to create color and design.
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