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Judging Books By Their Cover


Judging Books By Their CoverBOOK DESIGN BY BRIGHT LIGHT GRAPHICS


Title: The Solution to Social Anxiety (WORK IN PROGRESS)

Genre: Psychology

Client: Aziz Gazipura - The Center For Social Confidence

Date: March 2013

Work Process: The cover needed to express the goal of the book: to release the bonds that hold people back. The open lock symbolizes the breakthrough from being socially anxious to feeling self confident.


Title: Leren Relativeren Translation: Learning to Change Your View

Book: Changing perspective through carefully observing one’s thoughts. Using Mindfulness to change thoughts and behaviors.

Genre: Psychology

Client: SWP Publishers, Amsterdam (The Netherlands).

Date: February 2013

Work Process: This book’s target market is professionals, but might be offered to the “general public”, too. The need is for a simple cover.


Title: Hoe Maak Ik Mijn Levensplan? Translation: How to Create a Life Plan?

Book: A practical guide to finding one’s Life Goals.

Genre: Selfhelp

Client: SWP Publishers, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

Date: December 2012

Work Process: Re-design of an exisitng cover. The new cover needs to be more modern looking and clearly expressing the content matter of the book.

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Title: Islands of Refuge

Book: Situated in the psychedelic sixties, a young man is on the run for the law. He finds himself -literally and figuratively- on the Hawaiian Islands.

Genre: Memoir / Client: Jeff Munoz / Date: December 2012

Work Process: the first draft of this cover is declined because of the lack of “island feel” and psychedelica.

The second draft features a “psychedelic” sun, the silhouette of the Hawaiian Islands and a big blue ocean.

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Title: The Giraffe and the Jackhal Within

Book: About Nonviolent Communication.

Genre: Selfhelp / Client: SWP Publishers Amsterdam / Date: December 2012

Work Process: Re-design of an old cover. The previous cover was usually mistaken for a children’s book. The new design needed to be more “adult”.

The Jackal stands for “negative behaviors”, the Giraffe for “positive behaviors”. Black and white reflect these two animals (behaviors) as being polar opposite: black vs white. The color red is the color of the heart which is the connector between people and the “cure” for miscommunication.

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Title: Clear Your Focus, Grow Your Business

Book: A workbook for entrepreneurs to boost their business making more money and achieving more freedom.

Genre: Business / Client: Kaya Singer, Awakening Business Solutions.

Date: December 2011 / Work Process: Re-design of old cover. The colors and image needed to stay the same.

The Circular shapes on the new cover draw attention in, The blue circle places emphasis on “Money”. The white arch contains the image of the woman and the tree. These visuals place the focus on “growing”.

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Title: Get More Traffic to Your Website

eBook: freebie eBook about SEO in plain English.

Genre: Marketing / Business / Client: Jocelyn Mozak - Mozak Web Design

Date: February 2013 / Work Process: The red pin at the top serves as a marker and draws the eye towards it.

The pointing people work as a visual representation for “attention” and “more traffic”. The text balloon coming out of the “Twitter bird” is a visual representation of “plain English”.


Title: 10 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me

eBook: Staying sane after the baby is born.

Genre: Selfhelp

Client: Nicole Byers - Baby Synergy

Date: December 2012

Work Process: The expressio on the woman’s face is of someone “losing their cool” at that very moment. The image is a funny play on “staying sane”.


Title: 21 Days to Shift Your Money Mindset

eBook: Changing your attitude towards money. / Genre: Marketing / Business Client: Kaya Singer, Awakening Business Solutions / Date: February 2013

Work Process: Re-design of an existing eBook cover. The new cover needed to be more magnetic. Image of money eeded to be used in addition to something that expresses “Energy”. The dollar bills seem to be falling out of the sky: the flood gates of prosperity is opened. The yellow glow represents “Energy” and the $ in the “O” emphasizes “Money”, the focus of this eBook.

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