I was thinking of other things I have designed, and I immediately turned to my designs for my books (in collaboration with my sister Vina). I remember seeing the first cover design for my first book, Comprehensive Facial Rejuvenation, that Lippincott gave back to me and I almost vomited. The colors were purple, green, and yellow. It looked like a children’s coloring book. I immediately turned the project over to my sister, who has excellent taste and who works as a graphic designer and web designer. She worked with my idea of wanting a Brancusi sculpture, “Sleeping Muse”, which she then picked a beautiful brown gray color to complement it and finished the font, etc., to make it work.
For my Asian book, I had no ability to design the cover since the publisher has a standardized cover design. However, I spent hours combing through stock images until I found the perfect Asian model to adorn the cover. For my fat transfer book, I picked the model from a local photographer whom I hired to do the project. Then I designed the overlays using Illustrator over her face. My sister then did an amazing job creating the color scheme to match her eyes and also the font work with the word “fat” thicker than the other title text. Brilliant!
