Portfolio
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/157/157034/attachment_157034637 "This vibrant book cover was designed for \"Fun Facts & Trivia: 1940s-1970s Edition for Seniors\". The cover captures attention with its bold typography, dynamic layout, and bright color palette. It highlights key features such as \"11 Different Game Styles\", \"1401+ Questions\", and \"Large Print\", catering to the target audience of seniors seeking nostalgic and engaging brain games.
The use of icons in the background adds subtle visual interest, while the playful speech bubble motif emphasizes the fun and interactive nature of the content. The cover effectively conveys the book's focus on entertainment, memory enhancement, and mental fitness, making it appealing and user-friendly for its intended demographic.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/156/156987/attachment_156987501 "This cheerful and whimsical illustration was crafted for a series of Christmas-themed drinking glasses. Featuring the playful phrase, \"Christmas calories don’t count!\", the design exudes holiday joy. It incorporates vibrant seasonal elements like holly leaves, gingerbread cookies, stars, and snowflakes, all in a festive color palette of red, green, and gold.
The layout is optimized for champagne flutes, ensuring the design stands out beautifully on the glass. Perfect for holiday gatherings or as a thoughtful Christmas gift, this design adds a fun and lighthearted touch to any celebration.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/156/156975/attachment_156975435 "This festive illustration was created for a collection of Christmas-themed drinking glasses. The design prominently features the phrase, \"Dear Santa, I can explain...\" in an elegant, playful font, combined with seasonal decorative elements like holly, berries, snowflakes, and gold foliage. The vibrant holiday color palette of red, green, and gold ensures a cheerful and festive appearance.
The illustration was tailored to fit a champagne flute, ensuring optimal placement and visibility on the glass. This design adds a touch of humor and holiday spirit, making it perfect for Christmas celebrations or as a gift item during the festive season.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/156/156810/attachment_156810866 "This vibrant cover for \"Fun Facts for the Curious\" by Jacky Spear features a playful and colorful theme to align with the book's fun and intriguing content. Bold typography, colorful speech bubbles, and a dynamic yellow background create an engaging, energetic design. Perfectly tailored for a series, the layout ensures a cohesive and marketable visual identity.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/156/156645/attachment_156645500 "Lord, Have Mercy - Bible Study Book Cover
Designed an elegant and spiritually resonant cover for a 12-week Orthodox Christian Bible study guide. The design combines traditional iconography with a modern layout, using a deep navy palette with gold and red accents to evoke reverence and divinity. Classic serif typography ensures clarity and timeless appeal, while the composition highlights the sacred illustration at the heart of the design.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/156/156307/attachment_156307517 "This bold and humorous book cover design for The Dark Lord's Guide to Hostile Corporate Takeover merges the worlds of business satire and fantasy with striking visuals. The central figure, a silhouetted businessman in a sleek suit, carries a briefcase while casting a towering, devil-horned shadow, symbolizing his \"Dark Lord\" persona. The vibrant yellow background provides a sharp contrast to the minimalist black figure, while playful typography in bold red and blue emphasizes the satirical tone. The overall design is eye-catching, modern, and perfectly aligned with the book's quirky and fantastical theme.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/155/155970/attachment_155970068 "For this project, I enhanced a client-provided illustration using my illustration skills to refine and elevate key elements. I reworked the characters, setting, and color palette to create a more vibrant, emotionally engaging design. By improving lighting, textures, and composition, the final cover perfectly captured the romantic tone while staying true to the client’s vision.")
:format(webp)/http://s3.amazonaws.com/projects-files/181/18182/1818283/891c645c-a66a-41e1-a585-a0797a573b70.jpg "For this project, I handled the interior formatting for both the print and ebook versions of Blood on the Veld. My goal was to create a seamless reading experience that matched the mood and tone of the novel while maintaining consistency across platforms.
Print Layout: Designed a clean layout focusing on font choices, spacing, chapter headings, and margins, and page numbering.
Ebook Formatting: Converted the layout into a reflowable ebook format, compatible with Kindle and other devices, ensuring responsiveness across screen sizes.
Typography and Styling: Selected fonts for readability, styled chapter breaks, and ensured polished details like avoiding widows, orphans.
This project showcased my ability to blend creativity with technical precision for an engaging reader experience.")
:format(webp)/http://s3.amazonaws.com/projects-files/156/15625/1562560/ff40b5f3-2f4f-49c8-b6d7-724764c2fe3d.jpg "This portfolio item showcases my typesetting skills for a book with images, formatted for both paperback and ebook formats, with linked endnotes.
For the paperback format, I ensured that the page numbers and headers were correctly placed, and the margins and gutters were optimized for readability. The images were also strategically placed to complement the text, and captions were styled appropriately for consistency.
For the ebook format, I used specialized software to ensure that the book is readable on various e-readers, and the font size and style could be adjusted according to the reader's preference. I also implemented linked endnotes, allowing readers to easily access additional information while reading.
Overall, my typesetting skills, attention to detail, and understanding of both paperback and ebook formats resulted in a visually pleasing and readable book that provides a seamless reading experience across multiple formats.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/142/142018/attachment_142018376 "I had the opportunity to typeset a 37k-word book for a client. The project involved designing the layout and formatting the text to ensure a clear and professional appearance.
To begin, I reviewed the manuscript and discussed the client's preferences for font, spacing, and margins. Then, I used InDesign software to create a custom layout that would enhance the readability of the text. I selected a font that was easy to read and adjusted the spacing between lines and paragraphs to ensure that the text was not too dense or too sparse.
Overall, this project was a rewarding experience that allowed me to showcase my skills in typesetting.")
:format(webp)/http://s3.amazonaws.com/projects-files/138/13865/1386543/6580a16d-79f1-4619-9ec9-868ebb8c2809.jpg "It was one of my favorite projects. Eden is the second book in the series \"The Divine Tragedy\". I love to design fantasy book covers, and I'm happy to get a chance to create a visual identity for this book.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/130/130356/attachment_130356334 "It was a magical project for a book cover design. The Christmas story is about a cute little imp for children.")
About
I am an illustrator and graphic designer with more than 10 years of experience. I offer professional services in the following areas:
📋︎ Book Cover Design
✔ All genres ✔ PDF/PSD/JPG/PNG
📋︎ Interior Layout/Typesetting
✔ Print(PDF) ✔ E-book(Epub)
📋︎ Illustrations
✔ Vector(AI/EPS/SVG) ✔ Raster(JPG/PNG)
📋︎ Other Graphic Designs
Do not judge a book by its cover if you are Stephen King, but if you’re self-publishing a book you may need the professional and eye-catching book cover.
Member since:
December 25, 2010
Reviews
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"Nenad created an excellent design that fully met my brief. He was very quick to respond to my messages, ultra helpful, and made a slight tweak to the design I requested immediately. I will be working with him again."
jacspear55
reviewed 29 days ago
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"Easy to work with and provided everything in a very timely manner. Would work with them again."
TimWLong
reviewed about 2 months ago
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"Très professionnel et réactif, à l'écoute du brief qui a été détaillé. Merci pour cette belle couverture."
JP35
reviewed about 2 months ago
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