Introduction to Book Cover Design

Overview

“Now I will tell you the importance of color for cover design and I will give you some tips to use it to your advantage. I will also talk to you about how typographic nuances the message and I will suggest a method for choosing fonts. ”

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

“Now that we have some ideas for the cover. let's start adding color. In this lesson. i'll delve into the theoretical aspects of color usage to help you apply it effectively in your designs. Next. i'll demonstrate how to seamlessly integrate these colors into one of our sketches. Color is essential to express the theme of the book. as it carries symbolic and cultural attributes. Some tones are identified as cheerful and warm. and others as sad and cold. It's important to consider that colors change depending on how they interact with each other. So I will show you how to strategically combin...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Book Cover Design

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (185)
• 3981 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