Danika Isdahl
Lead Designer, Owner
Danika Isdahl is an award-winning book designer and owner of DI Designs. She currently works as the Art Director at JackLeg Press. She designs book covers, including for renowned authors Sandra Cisneros and Khaled Mattawa. Her cover for Hotel Almighty (Sarabande Books, 2020) was selected as an AIGA 2020 50 Books/50 Covers winner. She was named a Publishers Weekly Star Watch Honoree in 2018, and was the keynote speaker at the Australian Independent Publishing Conference in 2018. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky with her many pets, furry and feathered.
View her resume and other art projects on LinkedIn.
Download her portfolio here.
BESPOKE DESIGNS
Book Covers & Jackets
At DI Designs, I create covers or full jackets for poetry, fiction, essays, and graphic literature. I use a proven author and editor questionnaire to establish important elements, tones, and details of the cover and create a package of options.
Book Interiors
Interiors, unlike covers, are meant to disappear behind the reading experience. A great typeset should not be distracting or attention grabbing. Whether the work is a full-color graphic novel, lineated poetry, or standard prose, the content should shine.
Paperback and Special Editions
Hardcovers and dust jackets are great, but sometimes books need to evolve. Not all designers can come back to adjust their designs for new editions or formats. If scans are available, I can create alternative trim sizes, special editions and features, and alternative formats.
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