Your book is judged at 120 pixels wide, next to forty others, by someone who has not read the description and never will.
Readers decide from a grid. Before the blurb, the sample or the reviews, they've registered a shape, a color and a promise about genre, and they've moved on or they haven't. That judgment happens at a size most cover designs were never tested at, which is why so many beautiful covers disappear in a retailer's search results.
We've spent years inside this world. We know the genre signals that tell a reader they're in the right aisle, and we know when breaking one is worth it. We design covers to survive the thumbnail first and reward the reader at full size second, which is the opposite of how it usually gets done.
And the business has moved. The interesting money in publishing is direct: special editions, sprayed edges, subscriptions, crowdfunded deluxe runs and stores the publisher actually owns. That takes a series identity that scales, packaging that justifies the price, and a storefront that doesn't feel like a hobby project. All of it from one team, so the deluxe edition looks like it belongs to the same series as the mass market.
The result is a catalog that reads as a catalog, a direct channel worth running, and covers that work in the one place they're actually seen.
Every creative asset a publisher or author needs to sell a book
The use-cases we make most for publishing teams, plus our cross-industry core. Each tagged by the Service it sits under and the Disciplines that make it. Filter to find yours.
Cover Design & Series System
A cover that works at thumbnail and a system that keeps book seven looking like book one without repeating it.
Special Edition & Deluxe Packaging
Slipcases, foils, sprayed edges and inserts designed to justify a price that makes sense of the print run.
Interior Layout & Typesetting
Pages that read well for four hundred of them, with the front and back matter handled properly.
Author Platform Site
A site that works across a backlist and a career, not a page rebuilt for every release.
Book Trailer & Audiogram Set
Motion and audio assets sized for the places books actually get discovered now.
Retailer & Library Sell Sheet
The one-page pitch a buyer or acquisitions librarian actually uses to say yes.
Explainer Video
Make a complex product instantly make sense: clear, charming and impossible to misunderstand.
Sizzle Reel
A high-energy brand film that captures who you are in thirty seconds, for shows, investors and launches.
Social Media Ads
Scroll-stopping cutdowns sized for every platform, built to drive demand at the right cost.
3D Product Render
Photoreal renders of your product before it physically exists: perfect for ads, pages and listings.
Product Photography
Crisp, characterful studio shots of components and packaging that make your product feel premium.
Lifestyle Photography
Your product in the wild: real moments that sell the experience customers are buying.
Logo Animation / Brand Sting
A short, memorable mark animation that opens every video and signs off every reel.
Brand Mark
A distinctive logo built to stand out on a crowded shelf and a busy campaign page.
Branding Guidelines
Colors, type and rules in one tidy system so every asset looks like it belongs to you.
Pitch / Sales Deck
A persuasive deck that gets retailers, investors and partners to say yes.
Packaging Design + Dieline
Shelf-ready box design with production-perfect dielines your manufacturer will love.
Press Kit / EPK
Everything press and creators need to cover your launch: assets, copy and key art in one place.
Catalog / Line Sheet
A clean, ordered sheet that makes wholesale ordering effortless for buyers.
Conference Booth Design
A booth that pulls foot traffic and makes your product the one people photograph.
Email Templates
On-brand, responsive templates your team can reuse for every announcement.
Lifecycle Email Campaigns
Automated sequences that turn followers into buyers and buyers into repeat customers.
Online Store
A storefront designed to convert: fast, clear and built around your catalog.
Community Forum
A space for your audience to gather, share and stay invested between launches.
Why publishers and authors pick us
We read the genres we design for
Not a generic agency taking a book brief. We know the visual grammar of a genre well enough to use it deliberately, including when to break it.
Titles designed and counting
We know what survives the thumbnail, what earns a preorder and what makes a special edition feel worth the upgrade.
One stop for your digital creative needs
Don't chase five vendors when you could partner with one with proven capabilities in Branding, Experience Design, and Rich Media.
A schedule built around your pub date
Catalog deadlines, ARC mailings, preorder windows and street date. We work backward from the date that can't move. ---
Treasure in the wild
Estimate your publishing project.
Build a transparent estimate in about 60 seconds. Productized work returns a firm price, and a full title or series launch returns an honest range we dial in together.
Open the calculator →Frequently asked
Single covers have set tiers you can price instantly in the calculator. Series systems, special editions and full identity work run as a range, typically $2.5k to $50k+, which we firm up after a short scoping chat.
Both. Self-published and hybrid authors are a real part of this work, especially around special editions and direct stores. The process is the same, the scope is usually smaller.
Yes. Print-ready covers with correct spine calculations, bleeds and finishes, built to your printer's template. We'll talk to your production contact directly if that's easier.
Yes. That's our Experience Design pillar, and it's one of the most common things publishers come to us for now. Campaign page, direct store, preorder flow and the emails behind it.
The manuscript or a good summary, your pub date, genre comps you like and hate, and any existing series assets. The calculator captures the rest and we take it from there with a kickoff call. ---