Book Cover Design from Concept to Creation
Checking the Preflight
A course by Faride Mereb , Book Designer and Editor
About the video: Checking the Preflight
Overview
“After I'm sure everything has the right proportion, I will package the files. This package will allow everyone on the other end to have the resources necessary to make changes. In this lesson, I’ll show you how to do it.”
In this video lesson Faride Mereb addresses the topic: Checking the Preflight , 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
“Checking the Preflight Now that we know that our color file works, it's time to finish the project. The preflight panel is a helpful tool to review. Follow me step-by-step to make sure everything in your layout is perfect for exporting. Let's begin. Now, we'll check our preflight. Our preflight will be at the bottom left of our screen. If you see here, it says no errors. I'll check my preflight panel, which is here. If you notice there's absolutely nothing there. If there was something, it would be a list of errors and this button would be red instead of green. Now let's go to my next file....”
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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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