Introduction to Book Cover Design

Overview

“In this lesson, you will know the book that we are going to design. You will start by choosing a book and then analyzing it and starting to think of images that can represent it. ”

In this video lesson Daniel Bolívar addresses the topic: The book, 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

“The book In this lesson we are going to start designing the book. The first step is to choose a text to work with and I chose the book "All the stories" by Clarice Lispector. The first thing we are going to do is an analysis of the text to know what we can do with this book, what can we do to illustrate the content of the book on the cover and to convey to the reader what the book is about. Every cover design begins with an art director commissioning and with this person you will have a first conversation. In this conversation they will tell you who they want to address the book to. I recom...”

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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