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Christmas Books 2015-2017

Christmas Book Cover Designs

Christmas: The Greatest Gift – 2017

Christmas: The Greatest Gift

Portfolio TitleTITLE: CHRISTMAS: THE GREATEST GIFT
Icon BriefCLIENT: 10 PUBLISHING
Portfolio DescriptionDESCRIPTION: Thoughtful Christmas book to encourage people as they think about what the greatest gift at Christmas is.
Icon BriefBRIEF: Publisher was looking for an attractive Christmas book. The book needed to be designed for Churches and individuals. Ideally to also be sued as a give-away product.

Design also needed to work as a small booklet and additional downloadable Church resources for carol services, including: invitations and Posters.

Portfolio ProcessPROCESS: The theme of the book is about the greatest Christmas gift, so the design took gift elements for the design – wrapping paper, string and a gift tag. The gift tag and string was spot varnished and embossed for emphasis. The string and tag was used throughout the typeset as place holders for chapter titles.

and pulled the Design incorporates many Christmas icons set on a soft texture. The book design included embossing and spot UV varnish finish.

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Are You Ready For Christmas – 2016

Are you ready for Christmas

Portfolio TitleTITLE ARE YOU READY FOR CHRISTMAS BOOK
Icon BriefCLIENT 10 PUBLISHING
Portfolio DescriptionDESCRIPTION Thoughtful Christmas book to encourage people as they prepare for Christmas.
Icon BriefBRIEF Publisher was looking for an attractive Christmas book to appeal to all ages. The book needed to be designed for Churches and individuals. Ideally to also be sued as a give-away product.

Design also needed to work as a small booklet and additional downloadable Church resources for carol services, including: invitations and Posters.

Portfolio ProcessPROCESS Design incorporates many Christmas icons set on a soft texture. The book design included embossing and spot UV varnish finish.
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Four Kinds of Christmas – 2015

Four Kinds of Christmas

Portfolio TitleTITLE: FOUR KINDS OF CHRISTMAS
Icon BriefCLIENT: 10 PUBLISHING
Portfolio DescriptionDESCRIPTION: Challenging Christmas book to encourage people, as they prepare for Christmas, to see what kind of Christmas they are looking for.
Icon BriefBRIEF: Publisher was looking for an attractive Christmas book to appeal to all ages. The book needed to be designed for Churches and individuals. Ideally to also be sued as a give-away product. The design needed to appeal to a digital market.
Portfolio ProcessPROCESS: Design incorporates four core Christmas icons featured in the book – Shopper, Santa, Scrooge and Stable. The design of the book was warm red, with icons on the cover  shaped to look like apps on a phone.
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Brief

Publisher was looking for an attractive Christmas book to appeal to all ages. The book needed to be designed for Churches and individuals. Ideally to also be sued as a give-away product.

Design also needed to work as a small booklet and additional downloadable Church resources for carol services, including: invitations and Posters.

More Details

Christmas Books 2015-2017 – Christmas: The Greatest Gift (2017), Are you Ready for Christmas (2016) and Four Kinds of Christmas (2015) – designed for 10Publishing as part of their annual Christmas publishing campaigns.
Each design was produced to stand out from each other. The focus was to use core Christmas colouring, but with a more contemporary feel. Each cover had a graphic element that aspects of the books' content could sit with. All books were reprinted within the Christmas period of their launch and thereafter.