Book Cover Design from Concept to Creation
Digital Sketching
A course by Faride Mereb , Book Designer and Editor
About the video: Digital Sketching
Overview
“InDesign, grids, baselines, and guides. Here we will start working on our InDesign file. We will learn how to bleed our files to get perfect results and to communicate our ideas clearly for production. ”
In this video lesson Faride Mereb addresses the topic: Digital Sketching , 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
“Digital Sketching Digital sketching can be powerful since we get to experiment with different effects that would be nearly impossible with only paper and pencil. Let's discuss this a bit further while we work on InDesign. Digital sketching is a great tool. I'll make a workspace in InDesign and create multiple pages set up as singles. Here, you can see, we have the option to create a new file with this button. We can also go to File, New, choose Document, or on our keyboard, we hit Command + N. Now that we have this dialog box, I want us to notice that we have different options here. We have...”
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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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