How to Design a Book Cover: In My Skin
By Erin Lodes
Hello! Welcome to How to Design a Book Cover, a series from A Book Designer’s Notebook in which I walk you through a particular cover design from start to finish. This is a bonus series for paid-tier subscribers. You can read the first post in the series for free here.
This week, I’m sharing the process behind my cover for In My Skin by Erin Lodes.
The Brief
When I work with publishers, I receive a creative brief that usually shares a description of the book, technical specifications, potential art direction from the author, and art direction from the press itself.
This was a self-published book, so the author was the publisher. Here is what I got from the author: