Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story
The Secrets Behind Successful Book Covers
A course by Silja Goetz , Illustrator
About the video: The Secrets Behind Successful Book Covers
Overview
“I have identified some design solutions that are forever recurring in the world of book covers because they work like magic formulas: "Follow the hero", "The silhouette", "All in order", "The garland"... But of course, there’s one thing that will always work above all else: a great style!”
In this video lesson Silja Goetz addresses the topic: The Secrets Behind Successful Book Covers, which is part of the Domestika online course: Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story. Learn the secrets of conceptual illustration to create an eye-catching book cover using analog and digital techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“The secrets of successful book cover I propose you go to a bookshop now. Look around you, what do you see? See a lot of genres, I guess, sci-fi, love stories, self-help books, Pulitzer Prize candidates... I'm rather sure you will find some graphic ideas that repeat themselves. Maybe because they're just fashionable right now or maybe because they are really effective. I'm sure you will find examples of the following idea in your bookshop. This is what I call "Follow the hero". Usually it's for young adult novels or adventure novels because it asks us to follow the hero into an adventure. Yo...”
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Course summary for: Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story
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Adobe Photoshop -
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Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Storytelling, Traditional illustration
Silja Goetz
A course by Silja Goetz
Silja has always loved to draw, and with the encouragement of her parents, she kept it up and decided early on that she wanted to become an illustrator. She studied Communication Design in Nüremberg while working as an illustrator for a magazine about animals for children, along with some work for magazines like Elle and Cosmopolitan.
Silja worked as a layout designer for Allegra Magazine (Germany) for over two years, where she learned to see illustration from an art director’s perspective. After deciding she wanted to create illustrations instead of working with the work of others, she took a leap of faith and moved to Spain, where she started working as a freelance illustrator.
She has worked with press clients like The New Yorker, Elle, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Die Zeit, Outdoor magazine, and more, as well as on advertising projects for clients like Estrella Damm. Her book cover illustrations adorn the books of publishers like Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, Gräfe und Unzer, and Doubleday.
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