Your book is judged at 120 pixels wide, next to forty others, by someone who has not read the description and never will.
Readers decide from a grid. Before the blurb, the sample or the reviews, they've registered a shape, a color and a promise about genre, and they've moved on or they haven't. That judgment happens at a size most cover designs were never tested at, which is why so many beautiful covers disappear in a retailer's search results.
We've spent years inside this world. We know the genre signals that tell a reader they're in the right aisle, and we know when breaking one is worth it. We design covers to survive the thumbnail first and reward the reader at full size second, which is the opposite of how it usually gets done.
And the business has moved. The interesting money in publishing is direct: special editions, sprayed edges, subscriptions, crowdfunded deluxe runs and stores the publisher actually owns. That takes a series identity that scales, packaging that justifies the price, and a storefront that doesn't feel like a hobby project. All of it from one team, so the deluxe edition looks like it belongs to the same series as the mass market.
The result is a catalog that reads as a catalog, a direct channel worth running, and covers that work in the one place they're actually seen.
Every creative asset a publisher or author needs to sell a book
The use-cases we make most for publishing teams, plus our cross-industry core. Each tagged by the Service it sits under and the Disciplines that make it. Filter to find yours.
Book Cover Design & Series System
A cover that works at thumbnail size, plus a system so book seven still feels like book one.
Special Edition & Deluxe Packaging
Slipcases, foils and sprayed edges that make the upgrade feel worth paying for.
Interior Layout & Typesetting
Pages that stay comfortable to read for four hundred of them, front and back matter included.
Author Site
A site built for a whole career, not rebuilt for every release.
Book Trailer & Audiogram Set
Video and audio clips sized for where books actually get discovered now.
Retailer & Library Sell Sheet
The single page a buyer or librarian looks at before deciding to stock you.
Explainer Video
Makes a complicated product make sense in about ninety seconds.
Sizzle Reel
Thirty seconds that show who you are, for trade shows, investors and launches.
Social Media Ads
Cutdowns sized for every platform and built to earn their ad spend.
3D Product Render
Photoreal renders of your product before it exists, ready for ads, pages and listings.
Product Photography
Clean studio shots of components and packaging that make the product feel premium.
Lifestyle Photography
Your product out in the world, in the moments customers picture themselves in.
Logo Animation / Brand Sting
A short mark animation to open every video and sign off every reel.
Brand Mark
A logo that still looks like you at thumbnail size, on a box, and stitched onto a hat.
Branding Guidelines
Your colors, type and rules written down, so anyone on your team can make something that looks right.
Pitch / Sales Deck
A deck that makes it easy for a retailer, investor or partner to say yes.
Packaging Design + Dieline
Box design that looks great on a shelf, with dielines your manufacturer can actually use.
Press Kit / EPK
One link with all the assets, copy and art that press and creators need to cover you.
Catalog / Line Sheet
A tidy one-pager that makes it easy for a buyer to place a wholesale order.
Conference Booth Design
A booth people walk toward, and then take a photo in front of.
Email Templates
Reusable templates your team can fill in without breaking the design.
Lifecycle Email Campaigns
Emails that run on their own and turn new followers into repeat customers.
Online Store
A storefront that loads fast, reads clearly and makes checkout easy.
Community Forum
A place for your audience to gather and stick around between launches.
Why publishers and authors pick us
We read the genres we design for
Not a generic agency taking a book brief. We know the visual grammar of a genre well enough to use it deliberately, including when to break it.
Titles designed and counting
We know what survives the thumbnail, what earns a preorder and what makes a special edition feel worth the upgrade.
One stop for your digital creative needs
Don't chase five vendors when you could partner with one with proven capabilities in Branding, Experience Design, and Rich Media.
A schedule built around your pub date
Catalog deadlines, ARC mailings, preorder windows and street date. We work backward from the date that can't move. ---
Treasure in the wild
Estimate your publishing project.
Tell us what you are making in the project planner. We review your requirements and come back with an estimate, usually within one business day.
Plan your project →Frequently asked
Single covers have set tiers with published prices. Series systems, special editions and full identity work run as a range, typically $2.5k to $50k+, which we firm up after a short scoping chat.
Both. Self-published and hybrid authors are a real part of this work, especially around special editions and direct stores. The process is the same, the scope is usually smaller.
Yes. Print-ready covers with correct spine calculations, bleeds and finishes, built to your printer's template. We'll talk to your production contact directly if that's easier.
Yes. That's our Experience Design pillar, and it's one of the most common things publishers come to us for now. Campaign page, direct store, preorder flow and the emails behind it.
The manuscript or a good summary, your pub date, genre comps you like and hate, and any existing series assets. The project planner captures the rest, and we take it from there with a kickoff call.