Impactful Book Cover Design: An Art Director's Perspective
About Me
A course by John Gall , Designer and Creative Director
About the video: About Me
Overview
“My name is John Gall and I am the Creative Director for the Knopf Doubleday Group. In this lesson, I will tell you about where I'm from, my educational background, and why I love graphic design. ”
In this video lesson John Gall addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Impactful Book Cover Design: An Art Director's Perspective. Learn how to design meaningful book covers that capture the attention of readers alongside an award-winning designer.
Partial transcription of the video
“ About Me Hi, my name is John Gall. I work in New York as the creative director for The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. That said, I wear many hats. I'm a designer, art director, creative director, illustrator, artist, editor, writer, and teacher. I'm mostly known for my book cover design work, which I have been doing for over 25 years. My first job in publishing was working for a mass-market book publisher. I didn't like it much. It went against everything I learned about graphic design. You had to fill all the space and make all the type as big as possible. Next, I worked for a big bra...”
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Course summary for: Impactful Book Cover Design: An Art Director's Perspective
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Art Direction, Editorial Design, Graphic Design
John Gall
A course by John Gall
John Gall is a designer, artist, author, editor, and teacher. He is currently the creative director of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. His design and illustration work for Knopf, Vintage Books, Abrams Books, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Criterion Collection, and Nonesuch Records has been recognized by the AIGA, Art Directors Club, Print, Graphis, and American Illustration. Known for his book cover designs for authors like Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood, Jennifer Egan, and Vladimir Nabokov, his work is featured in the books By Its Cover: Modern American Book Cover Design, and Graphic: Inside the Sketchbooks of the World's Great Graphic Designers.
John has written about graphic design covering an array of topics from the history of Grove Press to contemporary skateboard graphics, and is the author of Sayonara Home Run! The Art of the Japanese Baseball Card. He has also been the editor of two bestselling design books: Pretty Much Everything by Aaron Draplin and Sunday Sketching by Christoph Niemann. John is an internationally-exhibited artist and published a book of his personal work John Gall Collages 2008-2018 in 2018. He has served on the board of AIGA/NY, as an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts, and is a frequent lecturer.
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