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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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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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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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Wash and Watercolour Art on Book Covers
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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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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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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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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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Floral Book Cover Design
Here is a beautiful collection of floral book covers which make heavy use of foliage as graphic elements.
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Clever and Beautiful Word Art On Book Covers
Let’s talk about typography as standalone artwork. Below are a collection of favourite typographical book covers.
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Brush Lettering in Graphic Design of Book Covers
I have a lot of brush and felt-tip typefaces in my library. They are appealing, but don’t tend to look good unless I play with the tilt, sizing and get the typeface combo exactly right.
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Reshaping the Baseline of Text on Book Covers
Let’s take a close look at how book cover designers alter the baselines of text to create a variety of interesting effects.
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Borders In Book Cover Graphic Design
These book covers utilise a border in the graphic design. Let’s see how designers incorporate borders to aesthetically pleasing effect.