Book Cover Design: Reimagine a Classic

Overview

“In this second part, I'll show you how to create spaces for the elements that will make up the cover, making the necessary changes in the process.”

In this video lesson Rafael Nobre addresses the topic: Complete cover assembly 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

“Complete cover assembly I will import the barcode I created. Just grab it and pull it here into my file. It will come like this transparent. Now, I will create a text box with the book's ISBN. I'm going to copy there from that Word file of mine. Here, I'm going to use a regular format for the font. I'll put a body size 6.3 or so. The number under the barcode is the same as the ISBN, so there's not much need for you to repeat those two numbers. I like to just use the ISBN showing up. It is important that the code is not too thin or too small, that this can hinder the reading of the code. I w...”

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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