Book Cover Design from Concept to Creation
Fonts, Fonts and Fonts!
A course by Faride Mereb , Book Designer and Editor
About the video: Fonts, Fonts and Fonts!
Overview
“In this lesson, we will find the shape for our content. I'll show you what you need to know to choose a font that works best for your project. Words have meaning, but so do letters.”
In this video lesson Faride Mereb addresses the topic: Fonts, Fonts and Fonts!, 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
“Fonts, Fonts and Fonts! Fonts give a voice to our content. They represent all of our information. Now, I'll tell you what you need to know to choose the best ones for your project. Let's get started. Fonts fonts fonts Our best friends will be the specimen sheets from the fonts we wish to contemplate as part of our concept. These are some examples by Omnibus-Type. Specimen sheets are important because we get to see how the letters interact with each size, background, or language. These examples are from a printed specimen spread by Commercial Type. We can also get to see how variation works ...”
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Course summary for: Book Cover Design from Concept to Creation
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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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