Compelling podcast artwork for heartwarming storytelling on tricky topic

Entertainment & The Arts

I am a psychologist, writer, and storyteller launching my first podcast for the type of people who listen to This American Life, The Moth, and other storytelling podcasts. They'll have good attention spans, value good storytelling and complex/deep ideas, listeners of public radio and consumers of quality media, and likely be avid readers as well as podcast listeners. The book that I'll be promoting at the time this podcast is coming out is general nonfiction and involves themes of death, grief, love and memory (it's called All the Ghosts in the Machine: The Digital Afterlife of Your Personal Data, published in US May 2020 and already out in the UK).

I need podcast artwork for a newly launching podcast called 'Still Spoken'. It needs to be a PNG image, ratio appropriate for Apple podcast store (ideally 3000 by 3000 pixels). The podcast description is as follow: 'It's been said that the dead are not dead as long as their names are still spoken. In May 2020, psychologist and author Elaine Kasket launches a new podcast, talking to her fellow storytellers about those they have loved and lost, and how those people live on through their words.' The feel of the podcast is warm, heartwarming, deep, funny, with a strong relatability and storytelling emphasis. You can see the trailer for the podcast on YouTube - please watch to get a sense before submitting a design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrLNtnI46_A

Fonts and colours associated with my brand are in the attachment. Although the podcast focuses on stories about people who have died, the design shouldn't be 'morbid', as it were, as this is a really heartwarming podcast about love and memory. And while it might often be funny or even bizarre, it wouldn't be appropriate for the design to be super humorous either! I'm looking for a really classic and classy design that will appeal to the kind of audience that listens to storytelling, NPR, PRI, This American Life, etc.

Every design category has flexible pricing for all budgets. Poster starts at $199.