Introduction to Book Cover Design

Overview

“Hello! I welcome you to the course. To get to know each other better, I'll start by telling you who I am and showing you some of my favorite projects.”

In this video lesson Daniel Bolívar addresses the topic: Presentation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Book Cover Design. Learn the essentials to design the front cover of a book from start to finish.

Partial transcription of the video

“Presentation I am Daniel Bolívar and since I was a child I really liked to draw. I really liked books and reading. I remember the covers of books I read as a child and a teenager. I ran my eyes over them millions of times and I memorized the details, the covers, the illustrations, how was the typography, the letters. When books are not illustrated, it is the only image you have to connect with my content visually. That always caught my attention. When I was a child I read "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings", "Harry Potter", "The Endless Story" and the cover is the way to enter these world...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Book Cover Design

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (184)
• 3910 students
• 5 units
• 18 lessons (2h 36m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Design

• Software

  Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Art Direction, Bookbinding, Design, Editorial Design, Graphic Design