Categories
How it works
Find a designer
Inspiration
Studio
+44 20 3319 6464
99designs client
Jlhogan got their new by running a design contest:
Winner
"Eilís Leyne needs a new book or magazine cover" winning by Adi Bustaman
The avatar of Adi Bustamanby Adi Bustaman

Eilís Leyne needs a new book or magazine cover

Get your own design
Learn more about
Get your own design
Learn more about

Check out Jlhogan's contest…

The Brief

Industry

Entertainment & The Arts

About us

Fiction author

What's your vision?

I am publishing my novel as an ebook on Kindle, and I want a Kindle cover that will look great in either color or black & white, and at the very small size--roughly postage-stamp size--used for Kindle ... The title of the book is Wicked ... It is a tense culture war thriller featuring religious secrets, political corruption, hate-mongering shock-jocks, and a beleaguered group of scholars committed to revealing painful truths, no matter what the personal ... I want the cover the convey a vibe of spiritual mystery and dark menace—but nothing ... The novel features a variety of exotic cultures and shadowy figures, but there is nothing supernatural in the ... The general message of the book is the triumph of rationality over superstition and ... I will entertain all design ideas, but I particularly like the figure of a snake biting its own ... It has been used since ancient times in many different spiritual traditions as a symbol of cyclicality, completeness, ... It might also symbolize self-defeating ... Other possible symbols that would work well with the plot are mazes, religious medallions, religious idols, and ancient books and ... I am attaching my own rough draft of a design, but you do not need to feel constrained by ... Please provide me with both a color and a B&W version of your design, so I can see how it would look both ... One more note, my first name has an accent in it—Eilís ...

The Brief

Other notes

In addition to the Kindle cover, I want a highly simplified black & white version of the main desgin motif to use throughout the book as a section ... It shouldn't take up more than one standard print line of ...

Bronze package

Every design category has flexible pricing for all budgets. starts at €289.

File deliverables

Full copyright with production-ready files for digital and/or print.

PNG
JPG
AI
PSD
EPS
PDF

It all began with a design brief.

A quick, interactive guide helped them understand their design style and captured exactly what they needed in their .

Designers across the globe delivered design magic.

contest entry by angelleigh
by angelleigh
contest entry by angelleigh
by angelleigh
contest entry by julisannico
by julisannico
contest entry by Mellonmac
by Mellonmac
contest entry by Mellonmac
by Mellonmac
contest entry by Mellonmac
by Mellonmac
contest entry by Mellonmac
by Mellonmac
contest entry by Mellonmac
by Mellonmac
contest entry by Mellonmac
by Mellonmac
contest entry by Mellonmac
by Mellonmac
260

design entries

You’ll get loads of concepts from experienced designers around the globe.

38

designers

Work with talented, professional designers to turn your ideas into reality.

1

winner

Select your favorite custom (Or two! Or three!). And the design is all yours.

Jlhogan collaborated with designers to refine their ideas

contest entry by Dhara7
by Dhara7

Rate designs

When design entries come in, you can rate them so designers know what you’re looking for in your logo design.

Give feedback

99designs has great collaboration tools so you can pinpoint and capture your ideas

And then… they selected a winner!

The avatar of Adi Bustaman
Adi Bustaman
Mid Level
5(25)
Winner
Winning design by Adi Bustaman
Design by Adi Bustaman titled "Book Cover Jacket Design for Scented Saviours"
Design by Adi Bustaman titled "Book cover design for Adults interested in medical history"
Design by Adi Bustaman titled "Book cover design for Travel-Loving Single Moms"
Design by Adi Bustaman titled "Book cover for book about MOM"
Invite to work
Client review

Amazing designer. Thank you so much!

hellbnTz

Along the way, they met lots of talented designers…

The avatar of angelleigh
angelleigh
Top Level
5(112)
America's Retirement Reality Check
Save the World
Work Book
Why Not Me?
Invite to work
The avatar of Tanja Prokop
Tanja Prokop
Top Level
5(9)
Book cover design
Trials of Redemption
Navigating Divorce with a Peaceful Heart
Book cover design for a book on Crossword Puzzles
Invite to work
Discover more designers

We think contests are a super fun way to get design.

Recently completed contests:

We’ve saved a spot for your design contest :)

Get your own design

Check out other design inspiration

The Mysteries of Barcelona

The Mysteries of Barcelona

Cover design depicting the main protagonist as a central figure in hand drawn style. Overall, it aims gothic mystery with victorian opulence and maintain it's vintage feel.

The avatar of Jeff Purnawanby Jeff Purnawan
YOLO (You only live once)

YOLO (You only live once)

.

The avatar of Mila.by Mila.
Caught - Historical Novel

Caught - Historical Novel

I wanted to create a cinematic layout that screamed historical romance. The woman was photo manipulated to resemble the characteristics of the heroine and the duel scene at the back cover was created out of different stock elements. I also added some aging effects to the title font to make it look more appropriate for this genre and give a more unique feel to the overall layout.

The avatar of L1graphicsby L1graphics
Out of the Box

Out of the Box

The avatar of Mila.by Mila.
The Girl With No Past

The Girl With No Past

The avatar of Mila.by Mila.
Shakespeare's Witch

Shakespeare's Witch

Set against the first production of Macbeth in 1606, Shakespeare’s Witch is a seductive tale of the origins of the curse of the Scottish Play.

The avatar of L1graphicsby L1graphics
Book cover for “Help! Ik Verveel Me” by Karin van Driel

Book cover for “Help! Ik Verveel Me” by Karin van Driel

“Help! Ik Verveel Me” (translated from Dutch "Help! I’m bored") is the story about Sarah, an 11 years old girl, and a crazy idea of her parents: a week without a phone. Without it, Sarah doesn't know what to do. But because she is bored, she dreams about so many things and she finds out that a little boredom is not so bad. It makes her creative. The design was made using some of the illustrations of Charmaine Lam, that also appear in the interior of the book. As these illustrations represent drawings as being made by a child, I kept the same style in order to respect the initial vision of the illustrator and the author. I had to dedicate a special attention to all the new elements that were added to the book cover. For that, I followed the same kind of trace and textures of the existing images. However, the colors were slightly intensified to catch the attention of the viewers. The choice of fonts also helped to give a certain “childish style” to the entire design.

The avatar of IsaDesignNetby IsaDesignNet
Book cover for “A Place for Grayson” by Kaitlin Kalagher

Book cover for “A Place for Grayson” by Kaitlin Kalagher

This book is about Grayson, a young adult that struggles with drug addiction and his girlfriend, Emily, a recovering alcoholic. Emily takes her sobriety very seriously, while Grayson has not been able to make that commitment yet. Instead of showing the characters, I decided to go for a more symbolic approach, in order to make it different from the common romance books. I used the contrast between cold and warm tones to transmit the concept of “choices” that the characters need to make in their lives. In this design the blue tones represent the sad and numb life of addiction, the struggles and the dramatic consequences… and the yellow/orange tones represent the recovery and the achievement of finally become sober. Grayson is still struggling in a “cold life”, while Emily has already overcome her battle. The orange flower is Emily that blossoms from branches that seem to be almost dry. While Grayson is still the cold reflex in the water of what can become his future.

The avatar of IsaDesignNetby IsaDesignNet
Book cover and illustrations for “The Mysterious Fire” by Ieasha Powell

Book cover and illustrations for “The Mysterious Fire” by Ieasha Powell

This is the final result of several projects to produce all the graphic elements for the first book of the “Wonders of Windsor Mystery Series”, which stories talk about the adventures of a small group of children in their hometown. The original characters were designed by Sharad Kumar and Manel Mendoza. The following characters, that appear throughout this story, were created by me with the same technic of the first ones (in Adobe Illustrator). The biggest challenge designing the book cover, but specially when making the illustrations, was to keep faithful to the original style and physiognomy of each character, while putting them in different poses and situations. It was important that they would gain life but still being easily recognized. The other elements of the book, like the symbols of each chapter, as well as the representation of the series, were made following the same graphic line of the logo, that I had previously designed.

The avatar of IsaDesignNetby IsaDesignNet
Book cover for "Letters from Katie Luther" by Shirley Casemier

Book cover for "Letters from Katie Luther" by Shirley Casemier

This design was a layout proposal and was never published. It was created for a fictionalized biography, aimed for 8-12 age children (mostly girls). In this novel Ave shares the letters of her best friend Katie and recounts her memories from the time they escaped a convent as young adults (where they were nuns), until Katie’s death at the age of 53. The story is set in Western Germany from 1523 to 1552, in the time of the Protestant Reformation. Therefore, my main attention was to have all the clothing and other details representative of this specific period in time. As the letters sent between the two friends are the main focus of the entire story, I’ve decided to use a font in the title (and in the header of the back cover text) that could represent the handwriting of one of the women.

The avatar of IsaDesignNetby IsaDesignNet
Explore more design inspiration

We love talking design:

Featured image for the article "Celebrating Queer Art: reimagining iconic logos in the style of renowned queer artists"

Celebrating Queer Art: reimagining iconic logos in the style of renowned queer artists

8 months ago | 23 min read

Featured image for the article "Colors and emotions: how colors make you feel"

Colors and emotions: how colors make you feel

last year | 9 min read

Featured image for the article "26 bad packaging design examples (and ideas for how to improve them)"

26 bad packaging design examples (and ideas for how to improve them)

last year | 15 min read

More design ideas:

Sticker and decal logos
81 logos
Dry cleaner logos
Green owl logos
24 logos
Dating app logos
Budget logos
Neat logos
Maple leaf logos
101 logos
Sunrise logos
Door logos
Aloha logos
Ly logos