Design Thinking for Book Covers and Visual Concepts
Researching, Exploring, and Refining
A course by Catherine Casalino , Book Designer
About the video: Researching, Exploring, and Refining
Overview
“Now I will teach you how to gather inspiration images, research similar books, and talk about creating your own imagery for a design. ”
In this video lesson Catherine Casalino addresses the topic: Researching, Exploring, and Refining , which is part of the Domestika online course: Design Thinking for Book Covers and Visual Concepts. Expand your creative toolbox by exploring the book cover design process and learning how to apply it to a graphic design project.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Researching, Exploring and Refining In the last lesson, we talked about concepting and sketching. In this lesson, we'll start researching and doing mood boards for our design. When you get to this phase, there are two different kinds of research you can do, inspirational research, which is the mood boarding we saw earlier, and usable research, which is finding images that you could employ in your design. First, I will talk about inspirational research, the things that you will put in your mood board that will inspire your design. One of the first things I did when working on Stephen King'...”
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Course summary for: Design Thinking for Book Covers and Visual Concepts
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Art Direction, Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Typography
Catherine Casalino
A course by Catherine Casalino
Book designer Catherine Casalino is the creative director of Casalino Design, an award-winning independent creative studio based in New York City that specializes in book design, print, and branding. Before starting her studio, Catherine worked as an in-house designer and art director for renowned publishers such as Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Grand Central Publishing.
For over two decades, she has been creating designs for a variety of well-known authors and clients, including Stephen King, A+E Networks, IBM, and The New York Times. Catherine’s designs have received recognition from prestigious organizations and publications such as AIGA, PRINT magazine, Communication Arts, Eye magazine, and the New York Book Show. She has also served as a judge for competitions hosted by associations like the Art Directors Club, the Type Directors Club, and the Association of American University Presses.
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