Book Cover Design from Concept to Creation
My Brief
A course by Faride Mereb , Book Designer and Editor
About the video: My Brief
Overview
“Here I will show the steps I usually follow to work on a project that I get from my clients. In this case, I made the project myself to assure I stick with the guidelines.”
In this video lesson Faride Mereb addresses the topic: My Brief, which is part of the Domestika online course: Book Cover Design from Concept to Creation. Explore visual metaphors, shapes, and formats to condense the complexity of a book into one space, using analog and digital techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“My Brief Now that we know all the different kinds of book covers, we can talk about the brief. I will show you a particular example of a book cover before we go into the final project. The editor of Kenning Editions reached out to me from Chicago and asked me to work on the cover design of "Festivals of Patience," the poems of Arthur Rimbaud. The brief that I got stated that the translator did not want to have a portrait of the author on the cover. The editor also told me that I had the possibility of printing offset with as many spot colors as I wanted. The most important part of the brief...”
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Course summary for: Book Cover Design from Concept to Creation
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Category
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Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign -
Areas
Art Direction, Editorial Design, Graphic Design
Faride Mereb
A course by Faride Mereb
Faride Mereb, born in Venezuela and now living in New York City, is an award-winning book designer and editor. As a teenager, Faride worked for a newspaper and soon developed an interest for typography. She was also a library assistant at school, and was struck by the cover of the first book she bought, 12 Cuentos Peregrinos by Gabriel Garcia. These were the foundations of her strong connection to books and printed material. She studied Graphic Design at university, and is currently a visiting scholar at Columbia University.
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In 2014, Faride founded the publishing house, Letra Muerta, where she has published eight titles to date. She has won multiple awards in Latin America, Europe, and the US, including winning in both categories for AIGA Awards' 50 Books, and 50 Book Covers. She was also awarded gold in the editorial category in the Latin American Design Awards. Faride is a member of the American Printing History Association, The Bibliographical Society of America, and Center for Book Arts, and has collaborated with numerous companies such as Penguin Random, and Ugly Duckling Presse. When not working with her publishing house, Faride also teaches at the Center for Book Arts.
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