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Project Title: Botanical Hardcover Journal — Amazon KDP Print Design
Description: A custom journal cover and print design created for self-publishing on Amazon KDP. Designed around the theme of healing and creative expression, the cover combines rich black background tones, vibrant electric blue botanical watercolor art, and modern line geometry.
Deliverables Included:
1. Cover Design & Layout Creation
2. Custom Typography & Composition
3. Amazon KDP Print File Preparation & Formatting
Tools used: Canva/ Amazon KDP Cover Calculator
Published Product: Successfully launched and now live on Amazon KDP.
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rediscovered some old favorites of mine, my first real ventures into any sort of motion design. these were our primary advertisement visuals for a private, fiction-based writing community around this time some 18 months ago. these featured archetypes that were requested as connections for members onsite to spice up our plot, offering an insight into the depth everyone has hiding behind their curated grids & posts, even if only in seeing what apps they have running in the background of their device, what notifications are enabled.
i have so much more material in the arsenal where this style comes from, & given our community's focus on interpersonal dynamics' impacts thanks to pressures from both social & news media sources (in spite of their potential unreliability, exaggerations, etc.), i haven't found a design system since that encapsulated the sort of 'ERROR 404' / 'uncanny valley' energy that we've always gone for in our storytelling, but in spite of content warning tags for glitching & potential eyestrain? lashback from external sources was far too severe to keep this style up & running for as long as i'd have liked.
what are your thoughts? any favorites of the four shown below? good start to an unconventional little case study, perhaps?
The ERROR 404 / uncanny valley angle is a clever way to visualize interpersonal dynamics without illustrating them literally. My favorite of the four is the top right, that cracked type treatment does a lot of storytelling on its own. Was the eyestrain pushback coming from...