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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.
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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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Isometric Book Cover Design
Isometric illustration is a style of two-dimensional illustration that represents three-dimensional objects and scenes in a way that eliminates perspective and depth.
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Pigeons In Art and Storytelling
I couldn’t tell you the name of most birds in the world. In fact, I know just a tiny proportion of them. But everyone knows the pigeon. Pigeons proliferate in our cities. Why? Long story short because humans brought them there, just like they brought rabbits to Australia and so on. Pigeons in cities thrive. […]
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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.
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Bauhaus Design Book Covers
The Bauhaus movement was a ground-breaking and influential art, design, and architectural movement that emerged in Germany in the early 20th century, particularly in the years following World War I.
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Large Blocks of Colour in Book Cover Design
The two-tone fashion we’ve seen recently in clothing extends to book covers. Here are examples of large blocks of colour in graphic design.
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Recoloured Images On Book Cover Design
Recoloured images can defamiliarise the real world and encourage viewers to see their own familiar worlds afresh.
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The All Typography Book Cover
It was Paul Bacon who invented the all-typography cover. This cover will be familiar to you because it has come back into style.
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Skeuomorphism in Book Cover Design
Skeuomorphism is the design concept of making items represented resemble their real-world counterparts. Paper folds, dog-ears, rips, holes, burns, scrapbooking collage, scrap cardboard, plane tickets, letters, post-it notes… These book covers are designed to look like derivative objects. A DAMAGED PRODUCT Some book covers look as if they’ve been defaced with scribblings and crossings-out: Book covers […]
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Symbols and Metaphor on Book Cover Design
All book covers sit somewhere on the metaphorical continuum, because covers must convey the essence of an idea.
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The Hand-Lettered Look In Book Cover Design
There’s a style of art and illustration, frequently seen on book covers, and I have no idea what to call it. Let’s call it the hand-lettered or hand-drawn look.