Szix Book Cover

When it comes to self-published authors promoting their works, Brad Branham does it right. He has long-term relationships with models and photographers he cultivated for his popular It Really Is Rocket Science™ series. So when Szix came around, we got to talking and Brad gave me a shot at the book cover. He gave me some notes to let me know what was in his head, but he also said feel free to ignore his notes if I had other thoughts.

The model is Elisanth, and the photos and illustrative post-processing is by Thomas Sprenger.

I created a logo from an existing typeface and customised it, and combined it with a witchy display face. Different cover lines and layouts were tried out for different effect.

After discussion with Brad, he wanted a more vibrant, sick green on the logo. The cover lines were revised and polished, and we arrived at the final cover.