Book Cover Design: Reimagine a Classic

Overview

“Now I'm going to add more detail to the illustration, working with the actual size of the cover and leaving the placeholders for the typography entry. ”

In this video lesson Rafael Nobre addresses the topic: Vector design and typography 1, 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

“Vector design and typography Now, we are going to do the vector drawing and the typography of our project. In Illustrator, I will create the first cover studies. At this point, I'll just focus on the first cover, that is, in front of the book. We start by creating the file. First, File, New. This cover is 14 x 21 cm, a standard format. Only her real format is 14.1 x 21.6. Those extra millimeters are because of the pebbles, which is the name we give to the difference between the measurements of the cover which are superior to those of the trimmed core. You can see this if you pick up a hardc...”

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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