My wife started to write her book in 2019. At the same time, I started to design it. In 2021, two years later, I finally published it.
It is giant and unique. I hold it in my hands, but I still can't believe that it could be real.
Named "Lili" (from my wife's nickname @lililoveme) bookset includes four books. The first "autobiography" book was so big (~1000 pages in total), so we split it into three volumes.
The last book is a cookbook including all the recipes mentioned in the autobiography. It follows the story of how my wife grew up from an IT job to a well-known pastry chef and culinary influencer.
Book shares the story, including inspiring moments and terrible things she faced. It describes how it influenced her.
Following the cookbook, you can get the same culinary experience @lililoveme had. Autobiography inspires you, the cookbook gives you the possibility to learn from her.
The design is limitless. If you make a book about your life, I believe it should not follow any rules. It should not react to any limits. You can do it the way YOU WANT, the way YOU LIKE. Anyway.
The final project is something between a fashion magazine, a kids magazine and an art-gallery catalogue. As the book is also something in between it :).
I started to work on the project myself in 2019. After a year of work, I realised it is too big for one person. I was working on other publications we had in 2021 at the same time.
I moved to an art-director position in the process of work.
With my wife, we created a competition for the position of book designer for this project. We found a great one in a day.
The book was printed and published as a set of e-books.
E-books were sold more than 1000 times in the very first month. They became our best sellers.
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This project is a part of the bigger story of how I became an independent publisher, you can read it here 👇🏼