Book Cover Design: Reimagine a Classic

Overview

“In this class, you will see the importance of briefing for project design. I will also show the elements that we must know to compose a cover.”

In this video lesson Rafael Nobre addresses the topic: Briefing and reading, 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

“Briefing and reading The briefing is a document that represents all the characteristics of the project, whether technical, budget or deadline information, even slightly more subjective information, like the tone of the cover, restrictions they may have according to the publisher. All this information, let's see more detailed in this example briefing I created for this project. The briefing is a document that records the necessary data for creating a project. It is important not only for the designer or illustrator who will work on the book, but also for the publisher, so she can think what ...”

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Course summary for: Book Cover Design: Reimagine a Classic

• Level: Beginner
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• 1778 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