Illustration and Lettering: Create a Book Cover

Overview

“Before starting the project, and since I'm working with a classic, it's important to look at which covers Bonjour Tristesse have been published with in the past and why. This is what we will see here.”

In this video lesson Manon Bucciarelli addresses the topic: Previous covers, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration and Lettering: Create a Book Cover. Learn to understand the needs of a publisher and create an original book cover that combines hand lettering and illustration in Photoshop and InDesign.

Partial transcription of the video

“Previous covers In this lesson, since it is a classic, we will observe how other designers before us worked on this cover in France and abroad. You should know that at the time, in France, the tradition is not to illustrate the covers of novels. Each publishing house has its own charter, extremely sober, which shows the title and author. Most of these charters are still in use today, such as the famous Collection Blanche from Gallimard editions. This reflects a certain taboo regarding the use of illustration. This is reserved for paperbacks or station novels. But for great literature, there...”

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Course summary for: Illustration and Lettering: Create a Book Cover

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (18)
• 845 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (1h 55m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Calligraphy & Typography, Design, Illustration

• Software

  Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Procreate

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Editorial Design, Editorial Illustration, Graphic Design, Hand Lettering, Lettering