Book Cover Design from Concept to Creation
Mood Board and Thumbnails
A course by Faride Mereb , Book Designer and Editor
About the video: Mood Board and Thumbnails
Overview
“I find it useful to have a mood board with references and visual queues of what I like or think it's appropriate for the project. In this lesson, I’ll show you how I do it. ”
In this video lesson Faride Mereb addresses the topic: Mood Board and Thumbnails, 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
“Mood Board and Thumbnails Now, it's time to work on our cover. The first thing I like to do after determining the size is a mood board. Honestly, I don't like the word mood board, but I find it useful to surround myself with visual cues and references to work on a book cover. Some of the things that I have here go from the texture of letterpress printing, the modification of one of the same photographs, the look and feel of a book cover that I like that involves comics and illustration. This is a catalog of Swiss books where there's a majority of sans-serif grotesque types I like, monochrom...”
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Course summary for: Book Cover Design from Concept to Creation
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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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