@partytime Hey! I'm TrulyDear from polyvore (though I feel like that's obvious from my username here haha) and I'd 100% be down for doing a Selection group on here! A lot of us from the pv Selection group community are over on discord (if you didn't already know) and doing groups on quotev and such, but I can try to reach out to the community on discord and see if anyone would be interested in doing a group on here, too.
my best recommendation is to learn from magazines related to fashion and interior design, they all have curious design patterns and you could form a mix of all those templates to use it as your own
Graphic designer had a higher state of consciousness designing this cover but someone above him (the one who accepted this cover) was probably from another galaxy (alien) - he had a different perception of reality ...