CD cover: Sundays in Paris

A native of Chicago, Lena Natalia recently returned to the U.S. after living in Paris, France, for several years. Lena Natalia brings a fresh, new sound to Modern Classical music with her emotionally-evocative and minimalist piano melodies.

Her debut album, SUNDAYS IN PARIS, a collection of original modern classical piano melodies, was released in November 2015; the title track from the album recently won the award for BEST INSTRUMENTAL SONG in the 5th Annual Indie Music Channel Awards held in Los Angeles in April 2016.

In June 2016, SUNDAYS IN PARIS  was awarded Gold Medals for BEST ALBUM and MINIMALIST PIANO MELODIES by the Global Music Awards. 

We have designed the cover for this Album. Although we had presented Lena with many designs based on original pictures we had taken ourselves in Paris, Lena wanted us to use a picture of a city view she has taken while she lived in Paris.  A picture that was of a lesser quality we were used to work with and that needed a lot of retouching, like removing cables in front of buildings, making cars in the street les prominent, changing angles of chimneys, changing colour of sky to create more atmosphere, and more…

It is easy to delete cables visible in the sky, but when it comes to delete them from buildings many designers will face problems with this because the deleted parts need to be refilled with the original background. This is not easy to do when the cables were visible over structured walls and windows. But we managed to do so by zooming in and redraw every missing line and object in detail by hand. A time consuming activity but with a positive result. You can’t tell where the cables were.

We wish Lena a lot of ongoing succes and hope to work with her again in the future.
This is wat she wore about us:

 

“Maryna has been a delight to work with on this project. She is talented, thoughtful and seems personally invested in successfully seeing a project through to its best result possible. She provided not only a wide variety of ideas for consideration, but was also able to see details that others may not have, which translated into a better overall final product. Maryna is also extremely responsive and was willing to make any changes I needed in order to meet the final specs by deadline. She is wonderful to work with and I am very happy to have had her expertise on this!“

Lena Natalia USA (CD Sundays in Paris)

Website of Lena Natalia: http://www.lenanatalia.com/

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Book cover: The Courageous Life

“Being overwhelmed with the big picture
can hinder you from being in the picture at all.”

Melissa J. Nixon (USA)

Melissa J. Nixon (USA) is a professional speaker, trainer, and leadership coach who spend her days connecting with the hearts of women and pushing them past their perceived boundaries to achieve goals that were once just a thought.

Recently her new book: “The Courageous Life” was published and we’re proud to say that we have designed the cover of this book. She loved the concept of puzzle pieces or leaping. Since leaping images are overused and it would not make her book stand out, we concentrated on the puzzle pieces.

Your life is build up from talents, experiences, knowledge, emotions and more, who needs to fit together like puzzle pieces in order to have success. Her added value is to learn people to use courage as the last puzzle piece. So puzzle pieces were really something we could work with.

Before we started the design we did some research about Melissa, her character, her website and the colors she uses. It became quickly clear that she is a very energetic person. Therefore, we wanted this energy also to be reflected in the design. Since the book supports a business purpose many designers would choose a more serious look but we went searching for some more energetic pictures of her that would enhance the energy we wanted to transmit. Melissa shouting was a good choice.
We also have used the colors of her website because it contributed to the branding of her business. It is important to have this consistency.

It is also important to understand that we did a lot more than just create the cover of her book. We became part of this project, created parts of the design that she could use for promotional reasons and gave her advice about the use of fonts and colors. We saw this project through to the end and that’s what we stand for: a reliable partner for our customers.

More about MaryDes: www.marydes.eu

More about Melissa: http://courageouslifeacademy.com/

See how Melissa promotes her book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8T2oyv6phM

 

Book cover: ReStart

“Unleashing your potential starts with overcoming barriers to success.”

Chad Goldwasser  (Austin, Texas,USA)

Chad Goldwasser, the number 1 ranked real estate agent, lives his mission every day by efficiently and effectively guiding real estate professionals through the path to success, financial freedom and a better life. He does this by empowering them with easy-to-implement methods, systems and tools.
His new book, “ReStart” is out and we are proud to have created the cover design for this book.

He wanted us to create an epic book cover about the 7 key system the author used to become the #1 real estate agent in the world.

By analyzing his wishes we extracted some key elements: real estate business and the 7 key system.
We wanted this cover to enhance the professionalism of Chad Goldwasser, build trust and invite to read.

The city nightlife enhanced with some visual effects was used to create the background, but the most important element was the picture of Chad himself which really needed to show maturity, professionalism and dynamism. We did not like the original picture he delivered, but together with his contact, Joshua, we found the right image that could convince every reader.

Thank you Chad for giving us the opportunity to create this design for you.

Website of Chad Goldwasser

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