diff --git a/_output.yml b/_output.yml
index a173398a..9823f6b1 100644
--- a/_output.yml
+++ b/_output.yml
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ bookdown::gitbook:
       twitter: false
     toc:
       collapse: subsection
-      before: |
-        <img src="img/cover_page.png" style="width:150px;padding:10px 0px 0px 10px;display: block;margin:auto;"></img>
       after: |
         <li><a href="https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown" target="blank">Published with bookdown</a></li>
     download: ["pdf", "epub"]
@@ -21,6 +19,7 @@ bookdown::gitbook:
 bookdown::pdf_book:
   includes:
     in_header: preamble.tex
+    before_body: frontpage.tex
   latex_engine: xelatex
   citation_package: natbib
   keep_tex: yes
diff --git a/frontpage.tex b/frontpage.tex
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..16df0f58
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontpage.tex
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+\includepdf[pages={1}, scale=1]{img/cover_page_scriberia.pdf}
+\newpage
+
+\let\maketitle\oldmaketitle
+\maketitle
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diff --git a/index.Rmd b/index.Rmd
index 7ce3d4ad..f0c43fbb 100644
--- a/index.Rmd
+++ b/index.Rmd
@@ -10,14 +10,15 @@ biblio-style: apalike
 link-citations: yes
 github-repo: r-devel/rdevguide
 url: https://contributor.r-project.org/rdevguide
-cover-image: "img/cover_page.png"
+cover-image: "img/cover_page_scriberia.png"
 favicon: "img/Rlogo.svg"
-description: "This guide is a comprehensive resource for contributing to base R for both new and experienced contributors."
+description: "This guide is a comprehensive resource for contributors (from all levels, beginners, intermediate, and seasoned) to the R project, facilitating their onboarding and helping them navigate the contribution process."
+
 ---
 
 # {-}
 
-![R Logo](img/Rlogo.png){height=400px width=500px}
+![R Development Guide. This illustration is created by Scriberia with The Turing Way community, used under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. DOI:= https://zenodo.org/records/13882307](img/r-development-guide.jpg){height=400px width=550px}
 
 # Acknowledgement {-}
 
diff --git a/preamble.tex b/preamble.tex
index dfd2e142..55c0abae 100644
--- a/preamble.tex
+++ b/preamble.tex
@@ -1 +1,11 @@
 \usepackage{booktabs}
+\usepackage{pdfpages}
+\usepackage{amsthm}
+\makeatletter
+\def\thm@space@setup{%
+  \thm@preskip=8pt plus 2pt minus 4pt
+  \thm@postskip=\thm@preskip
+}
+\makeatother
+\let\oldmaketitle\maketitle
+\AtBeginDocument{\let\maketitle\relax}