# Creativindie Covers > Custom book cover design from Creativindie, Derek Murphy's studio — three fixed-price packages from $349 with a 100% money-back guarantee and a 365-day redesign warranty. Source: https://selfpublishingdirectory.com/cover-design/creativindie-covers Website: https://www.creativindiecovers.com Category: Cover Design (https://selfpublishingdirectory.com/cover-design) Pricing: paid — $349–$849/per-project AI-powered: no Tags: custom, professional, studio, print-wrap, series-discount, money-back-guarantee, copyright-transfer, warranty Last verified: 2026-08-20 Best For: Authors who want a fixed-price package with a 365-day redesign warranty and full commercial rights on delivery Genres: romance, fantasy, thriller, sci-fi, non-fiction, memoir, young-adult Revision Policy: 3 rounds (Dali) / 5 (DaVinci) / 7 (Warhol), plus a 365-day redesign warranty Service Type: custom-studio Turnaround Days: 14 Creativindie Covers is the cover studio founded by Derek Murphy — a PhD in literature who studied classical realism in Florence and has designed for USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestsellers. The site relaunched in April 2026 as a studio rather than a one-designer shop: copy throughout refers to "our designers," and the FAQ says every cover is "composed, typeset, and finished by a human designer with publishing experience." It claims 1,200+ covers since 2014. ## What You Get - **Dali — The Debut ($349):** Front ebook cover, title page design, one cover concept, three rounds of revisions, one 3D mockup, and a back-cover blurb edit. - **DaVinci — The Bestseller ($549):** Everything in Dali plus a full print paperback wrap (front, spine, back), ISBN barcode, three 3D mockups, and five revision rounds. Marked "most popular." - **Warhol — The Chart-Topper ($849):** Print and ebook cover, custom title page, five 3D mockups, seven revision rounds, a book launch kit, and full interior formatting. - **Files:** Ebook JPG/PNG at 1800×2700, 300dpi; a CMYK PDF wrap for print on DaVinci and Warhol, sized for KDP, IngramSpark, Apple Books, Kobo and B&N. - **Rights:** Full commercial rights transfer to the author on final delivery. The studio asks only for permission to show the cover in its portfolio. ## Who It's For - **Authors who value redesign protection:** The 365-day Excellence Warranty covers a free redesign if the book underperforms within the first year — still uncommon in the industry. - **Series writers:** Consistent series branding is advertised as a specialty, with a discount for three or more books. - **Buyers who want a fixed number, not a quote:** Prices are published and paid in full upfront through PayPal, with no consultation stage. **Pricing:** $349 (Dali), $549 (DaVinci), $849 (Warhol), each shown against a struck-through anchor price of $497/$697/$997 with no stated deadline. First samples arrive within 10 days and most projects close in 2–3 weeks; rush turnaround costs extra. ## Strengths - **365-day redesign warranty plus a full money-back guarantee:** If the cover isn't selling within a year, the studio redesigns it free; before that, dissatisfaction with the samples earns a full refund. Both are stated on the pricing cards and the checkout page. - **Rights transfer is explicit:** The FAQ answers "Do you own the rights to my cover?" with "No — you do," which is clearer than most studios in this category, several of which retain copyright or require a design credit. - **Prices dropped sharply in 2026:** The entry package fell from $629 to $349 and the print package from $1,329 to $549, moving Creativindie from premium pricing into the middle of the custom-studio market. ## Limitations - **The revision policy contradicts itself.** The homepage advertises "Unlimited Revisions — no round limits," while the package cards on the same page sell 3, 5 and 7 rounds, and the checkout summary says "up to 7 rounds" for every package including the 3-round one. Get the number you're buying confirmed in writing before paying. - **Warhol's interior formatting is contradicted by the studio's own formatting page,** which states "We are no longer offering formatting services for indie authors" and redirects readers to DIY templates. Since formatting is the only thing separating the $849 package from the $549 one, confirm it is actually included before buying Warhol. - **One concept per project.** Every package includes a single cover concept, refined through revision rounds — not several directions to choose between, which is what contest platforms and some studios at this price offer. - **The site is littered with abandoned pages.** `/pricing/` (last modified 2018) and `/pages/pricing/` (2019) are unlinked orphans that still describe the old one-designer service; `/about/` is unedited Lorem ipsum; `/faq/` renders raw shortcodes; and the premade-covers page says the owner has "mostly stopped doing client work." The nav's "Pricing" link points to the current funnel, so the live prices are the ones above — but the stale pages are reachable and misleading. - **Limited portfolio to judge from.** The gallery shows 30 covers against a claimed 1,200+, and its image files date from 2020 and 2023, so there is little recent work to assess. - **The 4.9/5 rating names no platform.** The site advertises "4.9/5 across 800+ reviews" in its footer, but identifies no review site, and the reviews page itself holds 67 testimonials. Treat it as an unverifiable self-reported figure. - **AI is used in production.** The studio's AI policy says it uses AI for "moodboards, ideation, asset generation, and rapid iteration," with humans composing and finishing. Authors who need an AI-free supply chain should look at studios that market a no-AI stance explicitly. ## Alternatives For a comparable warranty from a larger team, Damonza starts at $395 for ebook covers. Authors who want an explicit no-AI guarantee should consider Deranged Doctor Design or The Cover Collection, both of which market human-only artwork. For lower-cost custom covers in genre fiction, Miblart serves romance and fantasy authors from $155.