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Beautiful Vintage Book Covers and Similar Modern Designs
GENUINE VINTAGE COVERS CONTEMPORARY BOOK COVERS WITH A VINTAGE LOOK Note: The highly etched look always results in a big digital file size no matter how much you try to shrink it.
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Vintage Art and Typeface on Book Covers
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Book Covers That Look Like Movie Posters
RELATED Good Movies As Old Books by graphic designer Matt Stevens
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“Children’s” Illustration On Adult Book Covers
RETRO CHILDREN’S ILLUSTRATION FINE WATERCOLOUR ILLUSTRATION Flat Design COMMON FEATURES OF FLAT DESIGN “Flat Illustration” refers to minimalist design. This type of design is popular on websites and apps due to its usability. In the age of apps, flat design has recently been in fashion. This design fashion of course made its way into picture […]
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Scroll Design and Swirls on Book Covers
The book cover below for At The End of Everything by Marieke Nijkamp looks at first glance to utilise a traditional scroll, but instead it’s a skeuomorphic design in which tape has been arranged to look like a scroll. Swirls on Book Cover Design
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Houses and Buildings on Book Covers
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Text Flourishes and Adornments in Book Cover Design
RAYS SWIRLS UNDERLINE
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Macro Photography and Extreme Close Up On Book Cover Design
Content note: An image which may be problematic for those with a phobia of holes. TEXTURES
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Italicised and Oblique Font on Book Cover Design
From what I can see, it’s more common by far to use a brush script or otherwise naturally slanting font than to use the italic version of a font on a contemporary book cover. Tilting upwards is also very common and lends an italicised feel: But here are some examples of italicised font:
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Text Heavy Graphic Design in Book Covers
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Papercut Illustration on Book Cover Design
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Knolling Graphic Design In Book Covers
Knolling is a photography term and refers to a top-down view of various related items laid across a flat surface at 90 degrees. The term was first used in 1987 by Andrew Kromelow, a janitor at Frank Gehry’s furniture fabrication shop and who liked to keep tools tidy by hanging them on the wall. If you […]
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1980s Graphic Design in Book Covers
Stephen King book covers are hugely influential when it comes to recreating a 1980s look for the suspense genres. CONTEMPORARY EXAMPLES Vulture interviewed the publisher about the cover design to the Stranger Things companion: MORE NEON WORD ART
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Book Covers with Variable Typeface
A multiweight font is one which offers different widths and weights as part of the package. Typically, a paid font set will include: Matching typefaces is a rare skill. Multiweight typeface sets are great because designers can make use of a single font set to achieve a variety of effects, and the end result looks […]
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Wash and Watercolour Art on Book Covers