eBook Cover Designers - The Gotchas

eBook Cover Designed for all eReaders

eBooks need a cover designed.  Despite the well known saying, "don't judge a book by its cover", people do.

Most eReaders only have a greyscale eInk display at the present time. In the picture above we have the Kindle 6" WiFi on the left with our book, and on the right the Kindle App on a Samsung Android Phone with a 4" display. Same size as the original iPhone.   It has to look good on both displays.

We have done our own cover as a vector design. That means we can make it as big or small as we need. Even though the file that is included in the book, and actually uploaded to Amazon was a jpeg file.

It is interesting to see the Book Marketing Guide and Smashwords Style Guide from Smashword's  Mark Coker don't look that great when viewed on an eInk Kindle. There isn't enough contrast and they are very washed out.  Mark Coker provides a list of such cover designers at Smashwords, but maybe you should contact me first!

For some reason some people have also used text that isn't black in their eBook. This too is washed out and not appropriate, even though it would be fine on an iPad.

Our eBook  Hot CAR-toons, Dudes, Dudettes & Stuff At the Heavy Metal Garage is available at Amazon.

Then there is the promotional material:

Movie like eBook Poster Design

Or even video teaser?

Contact us at Art & Technology.

Chevy Concept Car Vector Design - Designing The Future

This is a Chevy concept car. We aren't talking supercar here. But something that is so conservative it could go into production next year. Has a big brutish nose, but I like it, and have done a quick vector image based on it.

More Graphic Design –ish –ismly.  The type of thing to put on a T-shirt. With a logo "Designing The Future" or something like that.

It would be MUCH FASTER and easier to do more realistically with an airbrush in Photoshop, but it is an interesting exercise to do this with only graduations between two colours, and only use 5 or so colours.

We have made a variation of this for a T-shirt,  Designing The Future, available now.

This is about the attitude of creating a positive future. Features some of the elegant and simple wire frame behind the image.

Designing The Future - Concept T-Shirt

So it isn't a cartoon or caricature. We do all kinds of stuff.

See Art & technology for more details and samples.

Car Caricatures, Logos and Cartoons

We have been doing this type of commercial illustration for over 20 years. Been on the Internet since 1995 and it is recently a shame that the Car Caricatures, Logos and Cartoons page isn't coming up in google searches like it was. It is great that we have some customers that keep coming back because they like what we do, and they don't need to find us!