Editorial Designer for Premium Christian Book

I am looking for an exceptional editorial designer / publication designer / art director to professionally rebuild and produce a premium illustrated book called THE WORLD, part of a Christian boxed experience called YAVO — WHO IS JESUS. This is a 60-page book consisting of 30 two-page spreads. Each spread visually immerses the reader in the historical world surrounding a biblical passage through cinematic imagery, archaeology, architecture, geography, maps, artifacts, cultural context, and sophisticated editorial storytelling. This is not a traditional devotional, workbook, novel layout, or simple book-formatting project. The finished book should feel closer to a combination of a: museum publication archaeological field guide premium historical coffee-table book luxury editorial publication The visual direction is already highly developed. IMPORTANT — PLEASE READ BEFORE APPLYING For each spread, I will provide a highly developed flattened visual mockup that acts as the primary blueprint for the design. The mockup will show: overall composition intended hero imagery supporting images maps or archaeological elements text placement hierarchy colors overlays visual storytelling general cropping and scale overall mood and direction I will also provide the final written copy separately. However, I will NOT be supplying all of the visual elements from the mockup as separate source files. There are no pre-existing images for the spreads. The designer will be responsible for professionally recreating the spread from the mockup, including sourcing, generating, rebuilding, or otherwise creating the individual visual assets required for the final production layout. I do not expect you to cut images out of the flattened mockup. Think of the mockup as an extremely detailed art direction blueprint. Your job is to take that blueprint and rebuild it properly using high-resolution, commercially usable assets and professional editorial design techniques. For example, a mockup may contain: a cinematic reconstruction of a biblical location an archaeological artifact a historical map architectural details texture or atmospheric elements small supporting images labels and editorial callouts You would recreate or source those elements independently and assemble the final spread as a fully editable professional publication. Your Role Your job is to take each supplied mockup and preserve its visual concept and narrative while elevating the execution. That includes: recreating the visual composition sourcing or creating suitable high-resolution imagery recreating maps, diagrams, artifacts, or supporting graphics when necessary improving typography refining spacing and alignment improving image integration refining masks, crops, fades, overlays, and layering maintaining consistent visual quality throughout the book preparing every spread properly in Adobe InDesign ensuring all imagery meets professional print-resolution standards handling bleed, color, linked assets, and prepress correctly I am not looking for someone to completely reinterpret every spread. The creative direction will already be established. I want someone capable of taking a strong mockup and turning it into a world-class, production-ready version of that concept.