PPE Book Cover Design Project

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This customer received 63 book cover designs from 12 designers. They chose this book cover design from Mila@CreativeMotions.com as the winning design.
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Book Cover Design Brief
The Book title is "Practical People Engagement", subtitle: "leading change through the power of relationships."
The book's intended audience is project managers, change managers and anybody involved in leading project-based change, with the central message that project managers need to think beyond managing 'stuff' and attend to the key relationships within and around the change.
I'd like to see designs with plenty of white space, showing the idea of a positive dynamic through conversations.
The back cover can continue a graphic image, but needs to have space for blurbs. See Guy Kawasaki's 'APE' for an example of what I mean.
Updates
Please note that the sub-title of my brief needs to be changed to: "Leading Change through the Power of Relationships".
Added Saturday, July 20, 2013
Target Market(s)
Project Managers, Change Managers, Change Leaders,
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Requirements
Must have
- The title ("Practical People Engagement"), the sub-title ("leading change through the power of relationships", and the author's name "Patrick Mayfield".
Spine
Back cover.
The front cover should be clear as an Amazon thumbnail.
Nice to have
- This is book cover for a paperback measuring 5 1/2 " by 7 1/2" as well as the cover design for an ebook. The spine will be roughly 3/4" width.
Plenty of white space.
Some sort of graphic conveying dynamism or success through positive conversations or relationships with people.
Could be a progression from the back cover and spine.
Conveying fresh approach to a professional problem.
Some example graphics used in the book are attached to suggest ideas rather than to be used 'as is' in the cover design.
I'm looking for an image that conveys a simple human approach that breaks through complexity, cost and delay.
Should not have
- Hand shakes. This is a tired metaphor.