What is Cover Design & Series System?
A cover has to work at 120 pixels wide in a retailer's grid, next to forty others, before it ever has to work in someone's hands. We design for that first. A series system goes further: the rules that let book seven feel like it belongs with book one without repeating it, covering type, layout, color logic and how the spines line up on a shelf. You get print ready files with correct spine calculations, plus the ebook and audiobook versions.
Cover Design & Series System sits under Branding, drawing on Brand Design and Brand Governance.
Who needs Cover Design & Series System?
You are publishing a book, or you have a series that started with a one-off cover and now nothing matches. Maybe the writing is doing well and the cover is holding it back. Maybe you are an indie author who has outgrown a template. If you are a traditional publisher with an in-house art department, we more often help on series systems than individual covers.
Often paired with
Interior Layout & Typesetting
Pages that read well for four hundred of them, with the front and back matter handled properly.
View application →Special Edition & Deluxe Packaging
Slipcases, foils, sprayed edges and inserts designed to justify a price that makes sense of the print run.
View application →Book Trailer & Audiogram Set
Motion and audio assets sized for the places books actually get discovered now.
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