My cousin is a writer in Indonesia and she asked me if I wanted to design the cover for her latest parenting book. It was a pretty much last minute thing but who would turn down an opportunity to do something like this?! The editor provided me with the title of the book and gave me a brief info on the book, some book cover examples from their existing books, the target market and the colours that they wanted me to use, which were pastel colours.
They gave me 3 days to come up with 3 digitised ideas so I had to work super quick! Something I'm usually not good at:
The feedback I got was that they liked the 3rd design best but they said that there's already been a book with a similar design so they gave me another 2 days to come up with 3 more designs. Because they liked the 3rd design, I decided to employ the same kind of appearance (colours etc.) and playfulness to my next 3:
I wasn't really satisfied with any of these designs as I only had a few days to come up with something, I felt kind of rushed, which I feel it shows with these designs. But they got back to me anyways and said that they liked the first one. So with a few more adjustments I sent in a final:
A couple of weeks after, the book was all printed, packed and in bookstores:
I think I could've done way better if they'd given me more time to do this. But I guess this is all part of the experience which I am thankful for! plus I got paid too but hopefully I'll get more chance to do something like this in the future and apply myself even more to create something even better!
