BOOK AND CD DESIGN
Create covers that capture a reader's curiosity quickly, entice them and draw them in is crucial for a good seller
For eBooks, bands, special events, concerts and other promotional material
Creating effective cover designs require understanding the needs of you, the client and your target audience, brainstorming, research and designing a cover that ignites and attracts interest instantaneously as well as communicating the content. It must portray the author’s style, enhancing their credibility and knowledge. It must also have a well-designed cover to help boost sales of your treasured book.
Having a memorable impression for your business, band or special event is crucial. The Creative Pill can also help you establish your goals including logos, CD covers, and other paraphernalia needed to promote you.
At The Creative Pill, we pride ourselves in researching your genre and the perceived audience suitable for your image. We aim at making sure your poster influences the reader with a memorable campaign in mind.
Using type correctly is an integral part of cover designs. It helps create purpose, mood, feeling, style and tone. To create an effective cover design we focus on many parts of the design process including colour, scale, perspective, graphics, images and more.
CD and DVD design
The cover of a CD, DVD or book needs to resonate with its audience and that means identifying a set of images or correct use of text and use them in a way that helps connect with the reader.
We aim at creating a design that sets itself apart from your competition and helps make you shine.
Features and benefits of your book, CD or DVD cover design
Features and benefits of the design:
- Creates a story about the writer or artist
- Imagery sells
- Graphics sells
How a well-designed cover can help customers:
- By boosting sales
- Identifying their products
- Enhancing it
Establishing Connections
We must help the reader instantly recognise the book. There should also be a continuity which communicates to the reader who the author is.
The Importance of a Well Designed Cover
THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BOOK AND CD/DVD COVER DESIGN
So, it’s obvious that if the majority of people are looking online or in a store you need to make sure your product is noticed online and offline to reap any benefits.
FAQS
We work with start-ups, small business owners and entrepreneurs
We will design based on the brief you supply us or from your answers to our design questionnaire. Then we will submit the first design for your feedback.
Yes, definitely! You OWN your artwork + copyrights automatically – other studios keep these & charge you when you need them again
We usually aim at sending the first design to you for your feedback usually within one week. Then revisions are made if required over the following week.
Rest assured our aim is to give you a design that you will be more than happy with. After the first design is submitted we give several design revisions as long as the revisions are in line with the original brief. Also, our design questionnaire helps ensure we can give you the best possible design solution possible. If you don’t like the design we will keep revising the design until you are happy with it.
We are an Australian business based on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
Many different places, we work with clients in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe, USA & the UK.
You will receive a set of file types – for your future use. [Others have been known to keep the formats you really need]
- We don’t provide written content
- We don’t provide website hosting or manage your hosting
- We don’t provide you with a marketing plan.
- We can’t have 1-1 calls with you every day [unfortunately, by doing this it takes away our time dedicated to getting work done for you and other clients]
- Yes, mostly via email.
- Initial discussion can be with either Skype, Phone, mobile or landline unless you prefer via email. Finalisation can be the same.
- Messages via mobile relating to discussions or alterations for design work should all be done via email so we can keep track of your needs, not mobile.
- However, it is fine to SMS to tell us you sent an email and we can do the same for you if needed.
- ORDER – Order and pay via Paypal or Credit Card
- EMAIL – An email will be sent with confirmation and our design questionnaire
- FILL OUT – Fill out the design questionnaire and return it via email with any additional information
- START – Once we are clear on your brief, we’ll begin the 1-2 week design process
- FEEDBACK – The first week we send you the design for your feedback and approval
- REVISIONS – We’ll make a number of revisions as per your instructions until approved, as long as the revisions are in line with your original brief.
- APPROVAL – Once the design is approved, we will send the design files to you