Rain Saukas

Rain Saukas – Designer

Freelance art director with over 15 years of experience in advertising and publishing. I will take your book from concept to execution.

Overview

Freelance Art Director, 3D Generalist, Photo retoucher and Production Artist with over 15 years of experience working in all areas publishing, branding, print, advertising, product design, 3D, retouching, web design.

With extensive experience in guiding ideas from sketch to completion, I know that a good idea deserves exceptional execution. Aesthetic obsession, quality communication and keeping up with emerging technologies are my go to strategies. I truly enjoy working with people who are equally passionate about their work.
Services
Non-Fiction
Architecture Art Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits Design Political Science & Current Affairs
Fiction
Historical Fiction Science Fiction Young Adult
Languages
English

Work experience

Apollo Publishers

May, 2017 — Present

Skyhorse Publishing

Oct, 2014 — Mar, 2018 (over 3 years)

Worked on

Taevas Ogilvy

Sep, 2005 — Mar, 2012 (over 6 years)

Portfolio

The New York Times' pick in "A Holiday Gift Guide for Hardcover Fans" A Publishers Weekly pick in "Holiday Gift Guide 2017: Illustrated Gift Books" A Photographic and Historical Record of the City’s Vanishing Advertisements As the great city of New York moves,... read more
A humorous account of great inventors and their critics who predicted failure.They Laughed at Galileo takes a humorous and reflective look at one thousand years of the development of humankind: those who dreamt, those who taught, those who opposed, and those w... read more
Bacon has long been one of the most popular and prominent components of American table fare. “Bacon and eggs” just rolls off your tongue long before the waitress at your local diner can get your cup of coffee set before you. The BLT celebrates all that’s right... read more
In this fascinating book, more relevant than ever in today's political climate of "alternative facts," bestselling author and historian Nathaniel Lande explores the Great War at the heart of the twentieth century through the prism of theater. He presents the w... read more
“In a colossal epic tale, Mr. Jacob has sketched world history—its folkways, its religion, its superstition, and its plagues, all in terms of bread.” —Wall Street JournalFrom ancient Egypt to modern times, bread has been the essential food, the very symbol of ... read more
During the tumultuous 1950s in America, sex was as threatening to the nation’s moral order as communism. New York was the capital of the post–World War II world and the epicenter of a fierce culture war over music, theatre, movies, fashion, and literature, as ... read more
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up”. Pablo PicassoColoring has become an active and pleasurable interest for millions of adults. It's a phenomenon that captivates more people every day, but why? What is the psycho... read more
First time in paperback, the story of a troubled child who opens the hearts of the people in a small town to their own capacity for love. It begins when a vision appears in a carwash window in the tiny, dusty desert town of Infidelity, a blip on the map just o... read more
The power of positive thinking. It is an idea deeply rooted in American culture, from Oprah to The Secret to the mass-media ministries of Joel Osteen and T.D. Jakes. Yet no one has examined how this one simple idea—to think positively—has morphed from metaphys... read more
The Third Murray Whelan AdventureWhen Murray Whelan, lovelorn political minder and part-time fitness fanatic, is recruited to massage Australia's bid for the Olympics he has no idea how tough the going will get.Not even the sight of the gorgeous Holly Deloite ... read more
If I let you read mine, will you let me read yours?Forgotten Girl, a fifteen-year-old poet, is going through the most difficult time of her life—the breakup of her parents, and her mom’s resulting depression—when she meets Random Boy, a hot guy who, like her, ... read more
"The Loudness is perfect for Hunger Games and Divergent fans." - VOYA"I ​absolutely ​loved this book!" - Alyson Noël, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The ImmortalsHenry Long doesn't have a heart. He doesn't go to school. He doesn't have a girlfriend. H... read more
If you’re like most people, you want nothing more than a fair shot in life: a chance to seek out opportunities, work hard, and make your own way in this world. But as author Allen Marshall explains in How You Got Screwed, the game has been rigged, making it al... read more
Winner of the 2017 American Book Award Flores Forbes, a former leader in the Black Panther Party, has been free from prison for twenty-five years. Unfortunately that makes him part of a group of black men without constituency who are all but invisible in socie... read more
It is sometimes difficult to remember that in war there are innocents on all sides who suffer. German citizens who had no connection to the atrocities committed by their countrymen nonetheless endured great hardships because of them. In The Inner War, author G... read more
Incommunicado

Randall Platt

Just about everyone is incommunicado in the small, sleepy Oregon coastal town of Sea Park during the winter of 1941. That is, until Pearl Harbor is attacked. Then Sea Park springs to patriotic life. But is Ruby Opal Pearl (aka Jewels) Stokes the only person to... read more
In this funny, irreverent, unique, eccentric memoir, magician Steve Spill reveals how he managed to survive decades inside a rarely profitable, sometimes maddening, but often deliciously rewarding offbeat showbiz profession—magic!Spill tells of how his tailor ... read more
How to Write a Stellar Executive Resume is a step-by-step guide that empowers readers to create an effective and stand out from the crowd as a top candidate for an executive position. Brenda Bernstein, a Certified Executive Resume Master and author of the #1 B... read more
Shares with readers America’s first and most infamous serial killer and his diabolical killing spree during the 1893 World’s Fair in ChicagoThe first comprehensive book following the life and career of H. H. HolmesA fascinating true story about a dark moment i... read more
Hazard is a poignant, unflinching memoir of the emotional intricacies of growing up with a severely disabled sibling. Margaret Combs shows how her Southern Baptist family coped with lived reality of autism in an era of ignorance and shame, the 1950s through th... read more
Entropy in Bloom: Stories

Jeremy Robert Johnson

Book Riot Contemporary Horror Top 50 * Barnes & Noble Best of Horror 2017 * MCL Best of 2017 * Undead Airlock Best of 2017 * Dead End Follies Top 10Named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by LitReactor and Big Other and one of the Science Fiction & Fan... read more
The unforgettable story of Florida teenagers turned oxycodone traffickersGeneration Oxy is the story of a group of friends―clean cut, all-American high school kids―who stumbled into the Sunshine State’s murky underworld of illegal pill mills and corrupt doctor... read more
[ Dark Days BY Ormand, Kate ( Author ) ] { Hardcover } 2014
An adventure-filled romp through one of aviation’s most notable, dangerous and entertaining pursuits: airshows! In the early days of aviation, all flights were airshows. Spectators gathered whenever a new flying machine attempted to leave the ground―the trick ... read more
Years after In Cold Blood, the same town would play host to another graphic murder. Olathe, Kansas―the same town that played host to the quadruple murder made famous by Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood―achieved notoriety again in 1982, when a gentle man named Dav... read more
A “gripping and suspenseful account” of a baffling killing spree in eighteenth-century France and the fear surrounding the mysterious “Beast of Gévaudan” (Publishers Weekly). Something unimaginable occurred from 1764 to 1767 in the Gévaudan region of south cen... read more
American military bases encircle the globe. More than two decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States still stations its troops at nearly a thousand locations in foreign lands. These bases are usually taken for granted or overlooked entirely, a li... read more
NOMINATED FOR THE 2016 PHILIP K. DICK AWARD“When the alien gets around to unzipping her jumpsuit it’ll be impossible to see what’s underneath.”UFOlogist Harold Flint is heartbroken and depressed that the aliens that have landed on the White House lawn appear t... read more
A small German town edges into fascism in a novel by the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin: “So terribly genuine, it is frightening.”—Kurt Tucholsky It is the summer of 1929, and in Altholm, Germany, a storm is brewing—a local political resistance that cou... read more
February 29th is a date that comes into existence just once every four years. It is also the birthday of Thaïs—author Anne-Dauphine Julliand’s darling daughter—who died of a genetic disease. Thaïs lived just shy of her fourth birthday. She had a short life but... read more
#1 Best Seller - Over 50,000 Copies Sold Hailed by the likes of Israel’s founder David Ben-Gurion, Days of Lead is a gripping best seller recounting the author’s life on the front line during Israel’s War of Independence and is internationally released for the... read more
The world’s leading chocolate taster shares his wild ride to attain the most envied job, and explains his warning heard around the world: that we might soon run out of chocolate.Angus Kennedy has the best job of all time. But his journey to becoming the world’... read more
Veteran hospitality expert Dan Sachs interviews top business leaders to reveal how extraordinary customer service brings high profit, brand loyalty, and a vibrant workplace, and to share how you can implement their techniques in your own business. For more tha... read more
--- WITH A FOREWORD BY DR. PHIL MCGRAW --- Designer Dogs is the shocking exposure of the dangers of continuing to make our dogs tinier or funnier looking, more “Instagram worthy,” and presents startling new revelations on why this threatens French bulldogs, pi... read more
Get lean, build muscle, and stay healthy in only ten minutes a day! A Fitness Hall of Fame inductee and world-famous exercise scientist explains the #1 new fitness trend and how to get and keep the body you’ve always wanted.High-intensity interval training (HI... read more

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