Graphic Design for Fiction: Visual Identities with Stories

Presenting the Final Cover Design

A course by Tom Muller , Graphic Designer and Creative Director

Learn to translate powerful stories into memorable brand identities with a unique narrative spin using Adobe Illustrator and InDesign

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About the video: Presenting the Final Cover Design

Overview

“In this lesson, you will see a printed version of my design and a mock-up, where I have imposed the design onto a book. I recommend doing this for your own project, so you can see how it would look in real life. ”

In this video lesson Tom Muller addresses the topic: Presenting the Final Cover Design, which is part of the Domestika online course: Graphic Design for Fiction: Visual Identities with Stories. Learn to translate powerful stories into memorable brand identities with a unique narrative spin using Adobe Illustrator and InDesign.

Partial transcription of the video

“ Presenting the Final Cover Design In this lesson, we'll look at the final cover design. Here we have it. We've gone through the complete process of taking on a brief, sketching, designing, making imagery, and designing everything in InDesign. This is our final result. Here, we have our final cover. As I've explained in the previous lessons, this cover design is showing you the back cover with the spine and the front cover. As you can see here, on this little mock-up that I've made, this is how the book will look when it would stand on a bookshelf. This is the endpoint of this part of the ...”

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Course summary for: Graphic Design for Fiction: Visual Identities with Stories

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (31)
1283 students
5 units
22 lessons (5h 18m)
2 downloads

Category
Design
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign
Areas
Art Direction, Branding & Identity, Design, Graphic Design, Logo Design

Tom Muller

A course by Tom Muller

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Graphic Designer and Creative Director

Tom Muller is an award-winning graphic designer and creative director based in London. . Over the last 20 years, he’s made a name for himself in the comic and cult fiction industries, notably for his bold graphic work with Paramount Pictures, Image Comics, Darren Aronofsky, Hivemind and DC Comics. Through his studio helloMuller, he also creates logos, immersive visual worlds, and more for brands, storytellers, filmmakers, and entertainment companies.

His clients include Marvel Entertainment, Sony Pictures, Images Comics, Darren Aronofksky, 2000 AD, Star Wars, Disney, Google, WIRED, and Diesel. He is also the recipient of multiple awards including the Brand Impact Award for his design of X-Men’s Dawn of X[i], and his work has been recognised by The Eisner Awards, The Harvey Awards, [i]Entertainment Weekly, Wired, New York Magazine, and The Guardian.