Choose a book by an author you are familiar with. You are going to design two different covers for it, one using illustrations or photography and the other using just type. Design the whole cover including the spine and back page. Include the title of the book, the author’s name, a brief description of the…
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Research point: Paperback books
Many hundreds of paperback books have been produced over the years. Look at as many variations as you can find to see how different publishing houses designed their covers and how the covers fit together as a series. Select a particular publishing house and describe their design style in your learning log. OCA Graphic Design:…
Exercise: Book cover design
The Brief The brief for this exercise was to create a set of book covers for some novels by H.G. Wells, to establish them as timeless fiction. I’ve gone on the book store on my phone to find out what titles there were, and selected a handful I could download as audiobook. I decided to…
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