Editorial Design: How a Book is Made
The cover
A course by Enric Jardí , Graphic Designer
About the video: The cover
Overview
“Cover design, a piece that is printed separately from the gut and that is usually designed as a separate piece.”
In this video lesson Enric Jardí addresses the topic: The cover, which is part of the Domestika online course: Editorial Design: How a Book is Made. Learn to format a text with clarity, hierarchy, and beauty.
Partial transcription of the video
“The cover Now we are going to see how the roof part is designed. Remember that the cover and the front page are different things. The cover is on the gut, It must be designed under the criteria of the gut. While the cover is a separate piece, it is designed apart and printed apart. Let's see how it works. You have already seen that the formulas in the book are quite conventional, as regards design. Where we talk about more creativity or where there are more variables is when we talk about covers. But where we can entertain more would be the covers. Covers are an intermediate step which look...”
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Course summary for: Editorial Design: How a Book is Made
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Design, Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Typography
Enric Jardí
A course by Enric Jardí
Enric Jardí is a graphic designer who loves letters and typography. He's worked in many fields throughout his career, but has mainly focused on editorial design, art direction, book covers, corporate identity, typography, and illustration.
He has published several books, including Veintidós consejos sobre tipografía (que algunos diseñadores jamás revelarán) y veintidós cosas que nunca debes hacer con las letras (que algunos tipógrafos nunca te dirán) and Pensar con imágenes, which have both been translated into several other languages.
Enric combines his professional career with teaching at multiple academic centers such as the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the Blanquerna foundation, the Universitat Ramon Llull in Barcelona, ELISAVA, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, the University of Lapland in Finland, and IDEP Barcelona.
He served as president of the Asociación de Directores de Arte y Diseñadores Gráficos ADG-FAD for several years and has received multiple awards for his design work, including a European Design Award, a Laus, a D&AD Award, a Malofiej for infographics, and the Premio Nacional de Cultura design prize from the Autonomous Government of Catalonia.
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