Book Cover Design from Concept to Creation
Digitizing the Stroke
A course by Faride Mereb , Book Designer and Editor
About the video: Digitizing the Stroke
Overview
“Here is where the ink meets the vector. In this lesson, we will take the source files and make them clean and sleek on the computer. ”
In this video lesson Faride Mereb addresses the topic: Digitizing the Stroke , 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
“Digitizing the Stroke In this lesson, we'll go from messy to polished. We'll receive files from the lettering artist or type designer and modify them for the needs of our project. Let's do it. After I choose which one goes best with the project, they do something cleaner or more refined where I point out technical aspects about it from legibility to the fixing of a curve or if we need it to flow better. If you'll create your own, make sure the result will fit your scanner. Or if you have a high concentration of ink or paint somewhere and you wish to photograph, then you should edit the glar...”
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Course summary for: Book Cover Design from Concept to Creation
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Category
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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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