Nuno Moreira - Designer
Lisbon, Portugal
Book cover and interior designer with over a decade of experience in print and particular passion for books.
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Overview
I'm an art director/designer based in Lisbon, offering creative services in Book / Editorial design for a variety of publishers, small presses and independent authors all over the world.
My approach to book design is very much instinctive and enriched by a strong communication with the client.
Every project has different needs and may require the use of different materials or visual approaches (manually or digitally executed) ; always striving for the most enticing end results.
All covers are conceived after reading a manuscript and based on original artwork.
My approach to book design is very much instinctive and enriched by a strong communication with the client.
Every project has different needs and may require the use of different materials or visual approaches (manually or digitally executed) ; always striving for the most enticing end results.
All covers are conceived after reading a manuscript and based on original artwork.
Languages
English
Humanities & Social Sciences
Art
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
Fiction
Classics
Mystery & Crime
Poetry
Short Story
Thriller & Suspense
Thriller & Suspense
Horror
Certifications
- Bachelor in Cinema
Awards
- AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers nomination
Work experience
Director and Founder
Self-employed
July, 2007
–
Present
(over 12 years)
NM Design is a Lisbon-based studio offering creative services in Book/Editorial Design, Illustration and Photography publishers and independent authors worldwide.
Portfolio (16 selected works)
The Carp Castle
MacDonald Harris
A sly, sexy, and profoundly haunting work, The Carp Castle is the story of a disparate group of strangers adrift and confused in the decade after the First World War. These haunted men and broken women find themselves bound together by an ineffable force: the seductive spell cast by a mysterious woman named Moira--one part mystic, one part cult leader, one part prophet.The Carp Castle introduc... read more
Yukiko
MacDonald Harris
"A visceral and heart-wrenching cross between NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN and SILENCE of the LAMBS."-Bestselling author Emlyn Rees“Wounded Prey is a non-stop thrill ride of a book. Unrelenting, brutal, scary, and at times skin-crawling in its depiction of atrocious crimes. And yet it is also funny, warming and believable.”– Tony HealeyIT'S TIME TO FINISH WHAT HE STARTED…A young girl is snatched fro... read more
Dishrags to Dirtbags
Brooke Santina
When Beth Dolinsky's military husband returns from deployment with post-traumatic stress and gambles all their money away, this mousy, church-going housewife and mother of twin boys has to take matters into her own hands. Against the advice of friends and family, 40-year-old Beth applies to become a deputy sheriff and embarks on the toughest journey of her life. Now, Recruit Dolinsky finds her... read more
Lessons From An Evil Mind (Archangelous Series) (Volume 1)
Shawna Stewart
Lue sits in the middle of the floor. Her hands tucked beneath her, her eyes closed and her head, faced down. The evil that haunts her is there and she knows she must sit completely still and await the punishment that is coming next. The room goes silent, with only sounds of his foot steps as he comes closer. Every part of body screams “RUN”, but she knows she does not dare. She must sit silent... read more
World of Vacancy
Charles Schmidt
Welcome to the sun-tortured streets of Arizona, a place where the darkest secrets get snagged on barbed wire and justice is as deadly as it is patient, a place where something supernatural is afoot and redemption comes at a bloody price. Terrified people are making startling confessions to Hack, a complete stranger, and are never seen again. A crew of hardened criminals preys upon those who pr... read more
By the time of his death, Herve Guibert had become a singular literary voice on the impact of AIDS in France. He was prolific. His oeuvre contained some twenty novels, including To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life and The Compassion Protocol. He was thirty-six years old. In Cytomegalovirus, Guibert offers an autobiographical narrative of the everyday moments of his hospitalization because o... read more
Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe
Lori Jakiela
Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe is a book about mapping lives--the lives we are born with and the lives we are allowed to make for ourselves. Belief is part adoption narrative and part meditation on family, motherhood, nature vs. nurture, and what it means to make our own authentic human connections. Belief extends the possibilities of creative nonfiction at a time when many people are ... read more
The Secret of Angat
Esme Vos
March 1945. The Japanese Imperial Army is retreating from Manila to the northern provinces of the Philippines. Lieutenant Takeji Nakamura and the men of the 15th Engineer Regiment have been ordered to repair a bridge at Angat, a remote village surrounded by dense jungle, to hasten the withdrawal of the Japanese forces. If Lieutenant Nakamura and his men don’t complete the bridge on time, thous... read more
Delilah, My Woman
M. F. Sullivan
A literary novel in the style of Nabokov, DELILAH, MY WOMAN follows Richard Vasko, a troubled artist whose pursuit of fulfillment unravels down a depraved and bloody path. Obsessed by two women and the morphing vision of his masterpiece, Richard's quest for perfection devolves into a struggle against the impermanence of being he is so thrilled to inflict upon others. A tragic exploration of th... read more
TV in the Head
Kevin Tao Mohs
In the near future Personal Entertainment Devices (PEDs) are surgically implanted in infants soon after birth, creating a society consumed by the programs and messages being sent directly into their minds by the Personal Vision Corporation. On a hot summer’s night, an addict known as a PEDhead is murdered while breaking into the home of one of the corporation’s executives. Vision Enforcement A... read more
You wouldn’t go to your doctor’s office and advise him on running his practice, or propose reforms for how a CEO ought to run his company. Yet every day, your neighbors, politicians, and business owners complain about the failure of schools and call for change without ever setting foot in them. Criticism abounds regarding what schools are doing (and how they’re doing it wrong).In Unlocking the... read more
Book 4 in the award-winning Anna Kronberg series."Kronberg is a wonderful character, prickly, independent, analytical, intelligent..." A Bibliophile's ReverieWhat would you do if your darkest nightmare came true?For Anna Kronberg, time is running out. Hunted by an assassin, she has to find the true motivation behind her dead husband’s plan to create weapons for germ warfare. Bit by bit, she an... read more
The Potency!
Ben Garrido
In a world turned upside down by the God of Potency's prancing dickishness – Queen Elizabeth II in orbit, the Dalai Lama partially digested – two heroes set out to restore natural order, overcome crippling dandruff and escape the pull of the Mongolian Illuminati. Chul, a self-righteous South Korean salaryman, vows to find and consume the vaunted Twinkie of Destiny, achieve 15 minutes of earthl... read more
Bless the Child
Cathy Cash Spellman
Maggie O'Connor is a forty-two-year-old grandmother. She is also about to do battle with Satan... she just doesn't know it yet. Bless the Child What if your drug-addicted daughter left a newborn baby on your doorstep and disappeared? What if she came back three years later and took the child you love into a satanic cult? And, what if that child turned out to be mankind's last hope in the war b... read more
The Perfect Culture
Brent Robins
Thomas Gephardt is a world traveler. Or at least he would like to be one. Determined to leave the confines of his sheltered upbringing in the United States, he voyages to France to expand his horizons. He spends three months with a French family in Bordeaux, working in a local hotel. Inspired by these experiences, Thomas has plans to continue traveling. However, a romantic interest in Paris-an... read more
Nuno has 7 reviews
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Communication & Punctuality
I chose Nuno after seeing his many designs. He is an artist. He returned a beautiful cover that matched the tone of my story and I will forever be grateful. He had patience for my many questions as a debut author, and I reached out again to Nuno to design the interior when I was ready to publish. The results have enhanced my novel to a new level.
Theresa Batalogianis, October 2019
Nuno is a consummate professional and has done a fantastic job with my project. Clear communication throughout, he was able to understand the nuances of this particular project - it being collaborative media - and work well within some of the constraints, and develop awesome ideas and a perfect book design for what we wanted and needed. Would highly recommend.
Richard Galbraith, October 2019
I chose to work with Nuno on account of his impressive portfolio and the final result surpassed my expectations. He provided me with 4 different concepts, varying in fidelity to my original brief and the concept we ended up using was completely different from my brief but took one idea and turned it into something incredible. It just goes to show, it's best to trust the designer's intuition. Ev...
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Martin Hyde, August 2019
Look no further.
J.M. Wright, April 2019
Nuno is very competent, considerate, and responsive. He has a good international background, which is very helpful for my particular book. Our collaboration is still ongoing since it's my first time self-publishing, and I didn't know the exact steps in which everything is done. However, we've had enough contact and exchange of materials for me to be comfortable giving a strong review.
Brent Robins, March 2019
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