Local author, Henry Chancellor, approached us to design a cover for his self-published thriller ‘Scissorman’.

A Sweeping, fast-paced and intricately plotted story, needed an intriguing cover.

The design development was a long process, with Henry having lots of input into the process, also providing illustrations and photography he wanted to feature as part of the design.

Here is a selection of our initial designs.

Once the final design route was chosen various colourways were proposed — a cool, midnight blue, or blood red design:

In the end a cleaner, solid red cover, was chosen:

Here is the complete cover:

We also created designs for the inside front and back cover using illustrations created by Henry.

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