Book Cover Design: Reimagine a Classic

Overview

“In this second part of the class, I will talk more about reference searches, creating folders with images that will serve as inspiration for my project.”

In this video lesson Rafael Nobre addresses the topic: Search 2, 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

“Search Now, we have the reference search. In this research, I usually look for artists, paintings, drawings, graphic processes or any other kind of creative work which I consider to be related to the project I am doing. These works do not necessarily need to be editorials or book covers. It's even better if you look for references from other fields, in addition to design and illustration, because it can help you make your project more unique. This search I usually do on Pinterest and Google Images. For this book, I remembered the graffiti work of Os Gêmeos, that has a very colorful footprin...”

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Course summary for: Book Cover Design: Reimagine a Classic

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (53)
• 1913 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