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Resumen de Diseño de portada de libro

Hi and thanks for your interest.

Firstly, while we like the idea of designer having previous book cover specific experience, it is absolutely not essential. If you are willing to provide things in line with book cover specifications and supply us with the pre-pdf source files (more details below) we are very happy for you to be a ‘book cover virgin’.

* As we have a book series and related promotion material related to the book, it’s quite likely there will be additional work following this initial design as want similar design theme carried throughout.

Design Overview / Book Basics:

* We will supply quite a few design ideas but are very happy for you to submit your own creative ideas outside of our general guidelines.

The book, we want designed is called 'Ancient Wisdom for Modern Health'. It the first of a three (3) book series, called ‘Wisdoms of Health’. We want the book designed in a way that the basic design can be kept for Books 2 and 3. See the Andrew Griffith Online Store box at http://www.andrewgriffiths.com.au/store.html for a sample of similarly designed book series.

The basis of this first book is about helping people return to the simple, natural principles of health and happiness. It combines the 6000 year old principles of Eastern medicine, knowledge from time-tested natural health sciences, teachings from enlightened spiritual masters as well as the examples of the world’s healthiest and longest living cultures. The key goal is to outline the simple, age-old wisdoms for enjoying a healthy, happy life.

General Design Info:

Text:

See the attached files for the text for Front Cover, Back Cover and Spine. Logo for spine is attached.

General feeling to be conveyed:

Natural health and happiness (fresh, modern and vital)
Simplicity/ease
Peace/tranquillity
eye-catching / attention grabbing … i.e. when seen on a bookshelf

* While we would like the design to convey some aspect of ‘ancient’ (ancient wisdom), we predominantly want to convey the idea of ‘modern’ health (i.e. fresh, modern and vital).

The following are a few design ideas if you some basic ideas to start from - but feel free to submit something from your own creative ideas outside of these guidelines. Or even submit 1-2 designs from what we’ve got in mind and 1-2 of your own – whatever you like.


Image/photo Ideas:

As the book is about natural health / ancient, natural health wisdoms, feel free to use an image to reflect that. We are generally thinking to have one main image that is quite eye-catching and attention grabbing. As the book covers a number of different topics, e.g. diet, exercise, meditation, emotional health, getting out in the sun etc, we don't want the image to be too specific (e.g. someone meditating or eating a certain food) as that may give people the impression that the book is predominantly about meditation or diet etc.

One idea is just to have some beautiful natural scenery, e.g. a majestic blue ocean with a beautiful sunrise (i.e. without a person in it). If it does have a person or persons, it should be a 40 – 50 year old, healthy, happy female (and male), for example stretching (but not looking too yoga specific).

* Any photo/image should not be widely used or seen in the public domain - i.e. we don’t want people to have seen the photo/image elsewhere (within reason).

Colour Ideas:

We are open to your creative suggestions, but were generally thinking something along the lines of either / or
- dark green (as in a forest green / depicting nature / trees etc)
- light or ocean type blues and/or brown – can be good as natural colours.


Font Ideas:

In keeping with the title on 'ancient Wisdom', we have used a papyrus type font for this title in the book. Maybe good to use similar for the front cover text / heading text, but you may want to experiment with using a different (more modern) one for the words 'modern health.' Just ideas – do what you think best.


Design Sample:

See the attached document Cover_pure fusion for a design we like a lot of aspects of. We really like the blue/brown colours and love the overall ‘attention-grabbing / eye-catching image with the beautiful ocean water & sky.
* The only thing we don’t like is the image of the woman - it is too yoga specific – we don’t want people to think the book is a yoga book. Otherwise it’s all good.

Basic Job Requirements:

i) design of book cover (front cover, back cover, spine & bookmark) for a soft cover book .

ii) supply of the final files in formats suitable for commercial printers.
I.e. single page print ready, press quality PDF’s with bleed and cut/trim marks - generally 5mm bleed and the trim marks also offset by 5mm. All fonts and images to be embedded.

iii) use of and supply of an easily editable source file, (e.g. is it eps? – sorry, I’m not technically minded) but in case the printer has to edit the file in order to make it print ready, we need these file(s) also.

iv) supply of the colour codes used in the design.
v) receipt of the main image/photo (if) used on the front cover as a stand-alone file. (We are happy for you to contact us about paying extra for a photo/image if you think it’s a good one but it costs a bit more than a regular photo.)

* Notes:

1. If you want to worry about Book Size at this stage (it’s not essential yet) it is a C format: 234 x 153 mm or 9 ¼ x 6 inch. Spine Width = 21mm.

2. only the front and back cover & spine need be designed in this initial contest stage – i.e. until a designer is selected. The bookmark is really just an abbreviated version of the front cover with contact info added on. Very quick and simple and can be done after the winner is selected. Same with adding barcodes etc.

2b. if possible, please send designs with covers & spine all in one file. i.e. all joined together as they would be printed.

3. the actual text for the front cover and back cover is not 100% finalized (though probably 98%). There may be 1-2 minor changes that need updating before finalizing.

4. The prize will be released once files supplied in format(s) as outlined in Requirements.

5. Do not feel bound to these ideas. Feel totally free to convey the basic idea however your creativity desires.

Thanks a lot and look forward to receiving your first design!
Cheers
Mark Bunn

Objetivo del mercado(s)

Predominantly females 35-40+ years of age interested in ‘natural’ health.

* Note: While we want to mainly appeal to females, we do not want to alienate male readers who are also interested in health.

Tipo de industria / entidad

Printer

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Requisitos

Debes tener

• eye-catching, attention-grabbing, healthy/vital feel

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