Book Cover Illustration & Design for “The Witch Hunter’s Amulet” written by Marco Lobo

The book cover illustration and design for this cover took much research to achieve the authentic feel of the 1500′s era of Inquistions and convey the rich cultural and spiritual tapestry that was India then and still is. Below you will see a snapshot of my drafting table with some test illustrations to warm up with as well as references. Each page of this book is a visual and sensory delight, you won’t regret reading its pages, you can get your copy at Christopher Matthews Publishing.

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Wacom Intous 4 tablet freezing bug with iMacs!

Recently purchased a new Wacom Intous 4 tablet to use on my 27″ iMac, to replace my 6 year old Wacom tablet that worked with no issues whatsoever. After a day of use I noticed that the Intous 4 would always freeze after a restart from sleep mode on my Apple that never occurred with my old tablet over years of use. I then do Wacom software re-installs, I update all drivers, I check all hardware connections, still the tablet remains frozen. I call Apple support, they say since my perirpherals are all recognized in my System Profiler, and talking to the CPU I am good to go.

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Putting Spine in your Book Cover Design!

Book Cover Designs for our 2011 list at Christopher Matthews Publishing, designed by Armen Kojoyian

As 2011 draws to a close in our first year of publishing operations we are proud of the challenges we met for our authors and the quality of art and design produced for each title. At Christopher Matthews we don’t rely at all on cookie cutter cover creator software programs to produce your book covers. Each new manuscript we analyze and discuss in detail with our author’s to establish the key conceptual message or graphic essence that must be elucidated visually on a book cover, this attention cannot be poured out of a formatting program for book covers that unfortunately proliferate the internet world of self-publishing module’s.

Our book cover’s at CMP are created in the book making craft of the guild system, all original concepts, all original graphic creation or stock art supplied from the most reputable sources, all these components we then merge with the finest type treatments that are required, either of a classical treatment or avant garde flair. Our goal is to “Put Spine in your Book Cover Design” to achieve a creation of pure art that will translate into marketplace success for our authors.

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Welcome to the new website for Armen Kojoyian Design

I created this site (left) years ago that no longer served its purpose nor did I really know much about website design at that time, other then knowing I needed a presence on the internet. Last January I started the massive undertaking of building a new site html based but with no more knowledge then I had years ago. Luckily my tech guru buddy at ZrainMedia dropped a tip to look into WordPress as a module to build my new site, and he helped fill-in my knowledge gaps to hatch this site, couldn’t of happened with out him.

I ate everything up on WordPress for 3 months till about 3 to 4 am many mornings, then I just dove in banged my head often but got this WordPress thing learned and produced the site you see here now. The control I now have over my site and the backend is quite powerful and glad I didn’t go down the traditional site building means of html and Adobe software, WordPess customization and control is a superior way to go for a individual or small company.

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“Reflections from the Abyss” book cover design

‘I am a writer, so admittedly being someone who could not draw a circle without instructions, a protractor and a six year old child for assistance, I was amazed at what Armen created from the synopsis of my novel. From his first conception of the cover art to its final representation is nothing short of amazing. And seeing the stages of the art makes it more so. He has captured the essence of the duality of the antagonist and protagonist,

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