Mel MJ needed a new book or magazine cover design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 99 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
Experience Nutrition Group, LLC
Simple hands-on healthy cooking classes, workshops, retreats and events with holistic nutrition tips to holistic practitioners, yoga students, former NFL players, and office professionals . Teach simple culinary skills with organic real whole foods, focus on local farmers market shopping. 90% plant-based with addition of wild cold-water fish. Goal of book is additional speaking engagements / hands-on cooking events with holisitic / wellness / yoga conferences, retreats, organizations. Consumers are healthy, interested in holistic way of living, practice yoga, get massages
But, not know how to cook simple healthy meals. More women than men, 30-65 years old. Many self-employed / entrepreneurs.
Book cover (front, back, spine) for new, fun inspiring holistic cookbook.
Title: A New View of Healthy Eating Subtitle: Simple Intuitive Cooking with Real Whole Foods
Book size: 8 x 10
Approximately 200 pages
First print run with Createspace
Look and feel: Impactful, colorful, inviting, welcoming, approachable, friendly.
Positive, uplifting energy
Fonts: Simple to read
Front cover: Plant-based food beautiful food photographs (fresh farmers market food, some simply cooked), Photo of author with food. (I have included some examples of covers I "prefer" but am totally open to creative ideas!)
The book teaches simple culinary techniques, includes simple recipes, and the readers will learn to create their own beautiful dishes using local, seasonal farmers market-fresh. There will be alot of food photography and color blocking in the book. More magazine-like / lifestyle than a traditional cookbook.
After the 99design contest for the book cover, I may submit another contest for the direction of the interior of the book.
FRONT COVER COPY
A New View of Healthy Eating
Simple Intuitive Cooking with Real Whole Foods
Melanie A. Albert
TAGLINE if room: Eat Real Foods. Shop Local. Cook Intuitively. Eat Mindfully. Enjoy Food & Life.
BACK COVER COPY
A New View of Healthy Eating
Inspired by nine years of experience and hundreds of cooking classes, workshops, events, and retreats, with thousands of people – former NFL players, MDs, holistic practitioners, office professionals, seniors, and kids.
A New View of Healthy Eating is your guide to creating simple, beautiful, tasty meals with local, seasonal whole foods.
INTUITIVE COOKING EXPERIENCE
Enjoy shopping for real whole foods at your local farmers’ market.
Have fun learning basic culinary techniques using simple-to-prepare recipes.
Intuitively cook and mindfully create simple, tasty, healthy meals with real whole foods.
Mindfully eat beautiful food creations with family and friends.
Enjoy food and life.
PREPARE YOUR OWN CULINARY CREATIONS THROUGH:
79 simple culinary techniques
50 simple whole food, plant-based, gluten-free, healthy recipes
3 simple wild Alaskan salmon recipes
38 inspiring nutrition tips
9 delicious whole food categories
About the Author
Melanie A. Albert, intuitive cooking expert, author, and speaker, has been active in wellness, integrative medicine, and nutrition for over 15 years. She is a 2007 graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, 2001 Integrative Medicine Fellow and 2003 Intuition Fellow of the Kaiser Institute, former marketing consultant for Weil Lifestyle, LLC / Andrew Weil, MD, Holistic Nutrition Instructor at Southwest Institute of Healing in Tempe, Arizona, and 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher. She received culinary training with the Rouxbe Cooking School Plant-Based Professional Certification. Her company, Experience Nutrition, was an Official Health & Wellness Partner of the NFL Alumni Association in 2011. Melanie lives in Phoenix. You can always find her shopping at farmers’ markets, experimenting in the kitchen, and practicing yoga.
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Experience Nutrition Logo on back cover
The attachments include examples of covers I "prefer", possible food photos, author photos, and Experience Nutrition logo.
Let me know if you'd like any other food photos.
I look forward to seeing your ideas! Thank you!!!