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Many Small Items on Book Cover Design
René Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist best known for his witty and thought-provoking images and his use of simple graphics and everyday imagery. The following book cover seems inspired by Magritte:
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Text On Blocks Of Colour In Book Cover Design
In these examples the block of colour backgrounding the text serves the function of separating the text from its background, making it stand out. The shape is not otherwise part of the illustration. Oftentimes, these blocks of colour are part of a collage or mixed media design. (And when I say ‘colour’, this shape is…
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Doodle Elements and Line Art on Book Covers
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Cel Shaded Illustration On Book Covers
Cel shading or toon shading is a type of non-photorealistic rendering designed to make 3-D computer graphics appear to be flat by using less shading color instead of a shade gradient or tints and shades. Wikipedia
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Dark, Ornamental Graphic Design on Book Covers
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Wood Block Print Etching Wild West Book Cover Design
Risograph Printing on Book Cover Design A Risogrph Machine is a retro photocopier which is no longer in mainstream use, but is used by artists to create a vintage photocopied look. That said, most people no longer have access to a Riso. Instead they are making use of Photoshop. For example, at various Design Assets…
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Obscured Images on Book Cover Design
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Golden, Foiled, Shiny Book Cover Art
It’s not hard to find book covers with lots of ornate golden design: A certain kind of non-fiction book also makes use of gold and foil effects on the cover design, combined with a pastel colour scheme: But I’m interested in finding examples of gold used as an accent.
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Tilted, Rotated and Upside Down Elements on Book Covers
PAGE ELEMENTS TILTING UP ROTATED SIDEWAYS UPSIDE DOWN A fairly recent Internet trend: Upside down face emoji to indicate sarcasm or irony. Aside from indicating irony, ‘upside down’ also conveys an aside: “I know, right. This is complete understatement. There’s so much more to be said than that one pithy sentence.” Case in point, this…
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Modern Noir Graphic Design In Book Covers
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Font Sizing In Book Cover Graphic Design
Sometimes graphic designers are so subtle about varying the size of text it’s barely noticeable to the audience. The third word in the title Ghost Girl, Banana is marginally smaller than the first two words: In fact you may not even believe me. Not sure I even believe myself, so I measured the height. The…
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Non-sequential Text On Book Cover Graphic Design
These book covers feature text placement which requires the reader to either read between the lines or in some other non-sequential way. This looks great when done well, is very annoying when done badly. The key: Significantly alter the size and/or colour of the text, but be careful of changing the font.
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Geometric Design On Book Covers
TESSELLATION Another word for tiling. Importantly, the shapes in a tessellation don’t overlap. There are also no gaps. The most common shape used in a tessellation is therefore a square, equilateral triangle or a hexagon. What these shapes have in common: Their sides are equal. Their interior angles are equal. These are called ‘regular’ tessellations.…
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Centred Text With Border Art In Book Cover Graphic Design
This collection is a specific type of book cover border: The border itself is a work of art. This border art frames the central text.
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Floral Book Cover Design
Here is a beautiful collection of floral book covers which make heavy use of foliage as graphic elements.