Book Cover Design: Reimagine a Classic

Influences

A course by Rafael Nobre , Graphic Designer and Illustrator

Graphic Designer and Illustrator. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Joined March 2020
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About the video: Influences

Overview

“Now I'm going to talk about my biggest influences, those that are present in my work and that helped to conceptualize my practice.”

In this video lesson Rafael Nobre addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Book Cover Design: Reimagine a Classic. Combine images and text to create memorable book covers and bring your designs to life using Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.

Partial transcription of the video

“influences In this class, I'm going to share with you some of my biggest influences. The first one is a book by Gilles Lipovetsky. In this book, he deals a little with the aestheticization of society. He makes a history of the passages from capitalism to the present day, what he calls artist capitalism, and he deals with the various forms of aestheticization throughout history. I have always been interested in these topics, of trying to understand the political contexts, social and economic in which we live and not look at design or the arts just as a change in styles. After reading this bo...”

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Course summary for: Book Cover Design: Reimagine a Classic

  • Level: Beginner
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  • 4 units
  • 20 lessons (3h 34m)
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    Design, Illustration
  • Software

    Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop
  • Areas

    Design, Digital Illustration, Editorial Design, Editorial Illustration, Graphic Design

Rafael Nobre

Rafael Nobre
A course by Rafael Nobre

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Graphic Designer and Illustrator

Rafael Nobre is a graphic designer and illustrator with a degree from the UFRJ. Specialized in the design of books, he has created more than 500 book covers for large publishing houses such as Companhia das Letras, Zahar, TAG Livros, and Nova Fronteira.
He has more than ten years' experience behind him and has won several awards including the Brasil Design Award and Melhor Capa de Livro Getty Images.


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Book Cover Design: Reimagine a Classic. Design & Illustration course by Rafael Nobre

Book Cover Design: Reimagine a Classic

A course by Rafael Nobre
Graphic Designer and Illustrator. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Joined March 2020
  • 100% positive reviews (47)
  • 1,771 students