Examples of custom design graphic titles, and interior graphics and illustrations:
Art work for Murder on 48th, a noir hardcore detective crime thriller genre book project, was a team effort between the author and LIT Productions. A sound studio recorded and produced audio book masterpiece of professional voice actors, cinematic sound track and musical score, the paperback and Kindle versions are the annotated screenplay with character, scene, and setting illustrations for each chapter. This book project included cover art, full layout, graphic title and author name, manuscript preparation, interior template layout and book design, copy proofing, and a seven minute promotional video featuring excerpts of the music soundtrack for the audio book release, and a 30 second video book trailer. See this book cover online; Murder on 48th by C. E. Watson at Amazon Books and the audio book
Stories of Smiling Creek Farm is an illustrated collection of Children's Short Stories. This book project involved the full book cover art, cover design and layout, interior story illustrations, the creation of the animal characters and scenes from the stories, a custom designed specialty font title and author's name, a book logo for the author, and interior Front Matter background graphics. These stories are based on a real family and their adventures with pets and events at Smiling Creek Farm. The settings and each animal portrait portrayed convey the actual places and pets these children had. See this book cover online:
Stories of Smiling Creek Farm by Stephen W. Kibler at Amazon Books
TOM is a historical fiction Western genre novel set in Arizona Territory, 1880, and includes events in famous old west towns like Bisbee, Tombstone, Globe, Prescott, Flagstaff, Santa Fe, Durango, Silverton, and Creede, and a cast of intriguing characters such as Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, Johnny Ringo, and other Cowboys of these places and times, a seemingly unstoppable force of a stalking antagonist, a beautiful woman, a dun horse, and a coveted rifle. Everything about this story is spot-on historically accurate, including the style of sombrero, spurs, and rifle depicted in the cover art. The main character plans by the moon and there's somewhat of a mystery about a great horned owl This book project included creating the full book cover art work, portraying the main characters, book design and layout, custom graphic title, Front Matter graphics and chapter headers, and a book logo for the author, Jonathon Kibler. See this book cover online:
With custom art work created specifically from, based on, the book's content, we say "every cover has a story". Where Image Abides graphic title is white for a dark background and an altered specialty font. This book of poetry and art is all B/W, including the cover art, and is the B/W version of Corpus Omphalos, a body of works, which is printed in color. This collection commemorates the year 2012. The introductory proem for the B/W edition is titled May We Dream with a poignant line including the phrase "where image abides".. The photo-art created for the cover design was a rare chance photograph on an abandon and historic train trestle across the Columbia River that had been converted into a bridge, The Beverly Bridge. It had been snowing and the photograph captured a congregating council of crows. See this book cover online:
Where Image Abides by Mary Elizabeth. Kibler at Amazon Books
This graphic title came about while building a font with the shapes of the Welsh Blue Stones of England's Stonehenge, a bronze age astronomical observatory, the content of the book being a selected collection of metaphysical and other related works of poetry and art for the year 2012 as an end-point for this collection. The art work for the cover is a dystopic Welcome to Extinction embraced between the elongated letters "O" and "S" of Omphalos, See this book cover online:
Publisher's Page - two illustrations: 48th Street - Chicago Dock
Title page - two illustrations: Bun Bun - The Black Feather
Publisher's Page - story title page - back cover art of 3 main characters
Publisher's Page - two illustrations: Priest Rapids Lake - By Summer
Publisher's Page - two illustrations: Claw - Isle of Man
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