Book Cover Design: Reimagine a Classic

Overview

“In this class, we will see a list of the main approaches to what a cover can have: from illustration, through photography and collage, to typography.”

In this video lesson Rafael Nobre addresses the topic: Main graphic approaches and means of expression, 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

“Main graphic approaches and means of expression Designer and author Peter Mendelsund, who is one of my references, listed in his book called "Cover", the main categories of graphic approaches that we can use on book covers. He divided that list into two main categories: the narrative category and the meta-narrative category. The narrative category is related to the story of the book. Within this category, we have, first, the use of the character on the cover of the book. This feature is one of the most common approaches that we check on the covers. It can be used with photography or illustr...”

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Course summary for: Book Cover Design: Reimagine a Classic

• Level: Beginner
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• 1776 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