Book Cover Design: Reimagine a Classic

Overview

“After the research stage, it was time to materialize the first ideas for the cover. In this class, I will create thumbnails of all the ideas that come to my mind.”

In this video lesson Rafael Nobre addresses the topic: First ideas and sketch, 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

“First ideas and sketch After the research stage, it was time to materialize first ideas for the cover. At this point, I will create small thumbnails with the first ideas I had for the cover, without much judgment as to whether these ideas are good or bad. The important thing is to have several ideas so that later we can make a judgment on which way to go. It is also important at this moment that you already think in the structure that the cover will have, already leaving the placeholders for the image and text information. As the sketch is very simple, you can make small notes to indicate w...”

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Course summary for: Book Cover Design: Reimagine a Classic

• Level: Beginner
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• 1771 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