Book Cover Design from Concept to Creation
Creating the Cover File
A course by Faride Mereb , Book Designer and Editor
About the video: Creating the Cover File
Overview
“It’s time to make our final file in InDesign. In this lesson, you will see how to add all the details you need to complete your project.”
In this video lesson Faride Mereb addresses the topic: Creating the Cover File , 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
“Creating the Cover File Creating the cover file is very simple. We just have to be careful with measurements and details so we don't have any output errors. In this lesson, I'll show you how to do it. Let's start. Now, we'll create the cover files for our final project. What you see here is nothing more than an example of some idea I drafted maybe for a dust jacket, maybe for bleeding some lines in my cover. If you see closely, I have a secondary font and the actual lettering we brought from the SVG. This image here, I have it on a separate layer. If I go to Window, Layers, you can see I ha...”
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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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