"Trust Issues" Book Cover Design

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Book Cover contest The book Title: Trust Issues Subtitle: A Straight Guide to Wills, Trusts, Probate, and Digital Estate Strategies for Your Family Author: David Kay Trust Issues is a short, plainspoken guide to estate planning built around one hard truth: most people who love their families have not actually protected them. The author, a financial advisor with 31 years of experience, tells the story of losing his mother's multimillion dollar estate to taxes and a market crash because she could not bring herself to plan, and then confessing that his own trust sat unfunded on a shelf for years. The book walks readers through six questions about what their family would actually receive if they died tonight, then shows them how to finish the plan they meant to finish. The tone is warm, honest, and direct. Never grim, never preachy, never corporate. The reader Men and women roughly 60 to 80 years old. Homeowners. Parents and grandparents. They pick this book up at a seminar or see it as a thumbnail on Amazon. They are intelligent, skeptical of being sold to, and quietly worried they have left something undone. What we are asking for Bring us your concept. We are deliberately not prescribing a style, an image, a palette, or a typographic direction. Photographic, illustrated, typographic, conceptual, minimal, bold: all welcome. Surprise us. The only measure is whether the cover makes the right reader stop, understand what the book is within two seconds, and pick it up. Requirements Trim size 6 x 9 inches, portrait, with 0.125 inch bleed on all sides. Final files must meet Amazon KDP print specifications (300 dpi, CMYK, PDF). Front cover must include the exact title, subtitle, and author name as written above. No changes, no abbreviations, no added taglines. Spine: title and author name. Width to be confirmed at final page count (currently 68 pages, so design for a narrow spine). Back cover: reserve space for approximately 200 words of copy, a short author bio, a small author photo, and a barcode box (2 x 1.2 inches, lower right). Final copy will be supplied to the winner. Title must be fully legible at Amazon thumbnail size (about 100 pixels wide). We will judge entries at thumbnail size first. All imagery must be original, properly licensed, or generated with rights cleared for commercial print use. Document your sources. No gavels, scales of justice, piggy banks, or clip art families holding hands. Beyond that, the field is open. No AI generated text rendering with spelling errors. Every word on the cover must be typeset correctly. What wins Instant clarity about what the book is. Emotional intelligence: this book is about protecting people you love, not about death. Distinctiveness on a shelf of beige and navy legal books. Restraint. And a designer who can articulate, in two or three sentences, why their concept fits this book. Deliverables from the winner Print ready PDF with bleed, front cover JPG at 2560 x 1600 equivalent for Amazon, ebook cover variant, layered source files, and one round of revisions with the author. Judging and rounds Round one: front cover concept only, judged at full size and thumbnail. Shortlist of 5 to 8 advances. Round two: shortlisted designers complete the full wrap and receive the back cover copy. Author selects the winner. Feedback provided to all shortlisted entries. Notes for designers The word "trust" is doing double duty in the title: the legal document and the human feeling. The strongest concepts will honor both. The book's interior is set in Georgia with a restrained, classic feel, but your cover is not required to match it. Design the cover that sells the book; we will follow you. One line to keep in mind while you work, from the book itself: "A folder, even a nicely bound leather binder, is not a plan." Fill in your platform's prize, timeline, and rights boilerplate per its standard contest terms; the creative content above stands as written. Want me to save this as a file, or adjust anything before it posts?

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Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Book Cover Design

Branding

Creative Design

Graphic Design

Illustration

Print Design

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Carl

@HeatonBDesign

hace 4 días

CH, stay sharp, you're going to get Many HUNDREDS of entries and most will be AI generated, 99% AI. These scammers put in no effort, your brief gets pasted into an AI image tool and the result gets submitted in seconds. No originality, no skill, no human thought. Real hand crafted design takes genuine time and creativity, and it always shows in the work. This is why entries look so similar to each other, AI only produces what your words tell it to, nothing more. Watch out also for rapid consecutive entries, a genuine designer's process takes far longer than that. IF ENTRIES LOOK THE SAME, THAT'S AI. ALSO PLEASE NOTE!!! AI-generated images carry zero copyright protection, leaving any third party free to replicate the design, which could lead to legal disputes over ownership or usage rights down the line.