Everyone has a story worth telling
Everyone has a story worth telling
The fact is, people do judge a book by it’s cover
Cover design is a critical part of getting someone to pick up your book in the shop, or stop scrolling online to check it it out.
There’s a lot of misconceptions out there about cover design. People like to talk about rules for what you must do to draw attention.
The reality is that each book is differently and requires its own unique treatment… the cover should be as unique as the story within.
But that doesn’t mean that it should be massive and expensive exercise to attain the right result.
At Rack and Rune, we have the experience in a broad range of visual creative skill sets that can bring your book’s cover to life quickly and affordably, using a combination of techniques, assets and software including photography, illustration, typography, stock photography, AI image generation, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
Have a look at some of our cover stories below or check out our gallery of book covers for a glimpse of the broad range of our cover design skills.
Rack and Rune produced several versions of the cover for Deli Chick, with the client eventually settling for this version. A mixture of AI, tradition illustration and additional waork in Photoshop.
Design: Graham Davidson
Rack and Rune’s Graham Davidson produced this illustration in an afternoon on his iPad. After trying several different backgrounds, the decsion was made to go with a flat colour.
Design: Graham Davidson
Rack and Rune sourced three seperate stock photographs from iStock and brought them together as a composite image in Photoshop
Design: Graham Davidson
Hand drawn illustration by Graham Davidson composited with text in Illustrator
Design: Graham Davidson
Photograph by Graham Davidson composited with text and AI generated background illustation in Photoshop.
Design: Graham Davidson
Extensive Photoshop treatment of client supplied photograph
Design: Graham Davidson
Extensive Photoshop treatment of passport photographs supplied by client then composited together in InDesign
Design: Graham Davidson
Stock photograph composited with text in InDesign
Design: Graham Davidson
AI generated image (Mid Journey) composited with text in INDesign
Design: Graham Davidson
Illustration by Graham Davidson with text added in Indesign.
Design: Graham Davidson
