Book Cover Design: Reimagine a Classic

Overview

“Here I will show how the cover can be both a protection for the printed book and an invitation or an explanation of the content for the reading public.”

In this video lesson Rafael Nobre addresses the topic: What is a cover?, 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

“What is a cover? In this class, I will explain what a book cover is. A book cover is like a gateway to the universe the writer created. It is also an interpretation and a translation from verbal language to visual language. This process of translation and interpretation requires the design to select elements of the text that it will express visually. In this process, there are elements of the text that are valued and others discarded. The cover makes the abstract concrete and visualizes the ephemeral. It functions as an intermediary between the writer's and the world, the culture where it i...”

This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.

Course summary for: Book Cover Design: Reimagine a Classic

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (49)
• 1879 students
• 4 units
• 20 lessons (3h 34m)
• 10 downloads

• Category

  Design, Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

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