Portfolio
Book Design, E-book Design, Web Design
Project Title
How Small Decisions Impact Our Financial Wellbeing
Brief Overview or Introduction
Summary: This is a non-fiction book detailing the financial decisions of two friends.
Project goals: Design a Book Launch Package, including:
- A book cover
- Book interior design
- E-book design
- Author website design
Client: Sieg Prigge Financial Adviser
Problem: The book featured a large amount of tables which was challenging to typeset and to format for the e-book.
Role
Responsibilities: My role as the Designer was to translate the author’s ideas visually.
Process & Development
Research: The initial steps involved reading parts of the manuscript as well as reviewing the author’s completed nonfiction literature analysis form to get a better understanding of the material and translate it into a visual form.
Conceptualisation: The first concept consisted of a redesign of the author’s provided cover design.
Iterations: In the first iteration the author’s design decisions were improved, except for statistical graph elements which were retained and the cenral alignment to imply stability and trustworthiness which are attributes of his brand.
Final Solution/Design: In the final cover design draft options, the first was a traditional style with a cold and cerebral colour scheme to reinforce stability, trustworthiness and experience, and the second was a more modernist style. The author chose the former.
Additional Materials
View a sample of the book on the author’s website at https://fincology.co/
Call to Action
Order a book launch package and/or author website: info@riaanwilmans.co.za