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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.
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Book Cover Design With A Large Central Graphic
This book cover design layout is very common and does not call attention to itself. Still, I’ve collected a number of these covers for a compare and contrast.
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Margins and Spacing in Book Cover Design
Let’s take a close look at how graphic designers alter margins, kerning and leading when creating contemporary book covers. First, by way of contrast, a small selection of book covers which are centre justified. Note than in all of these examples, the symmetry is broken by another stand-out page element, be it a marketing blurb, […]
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Blur and Glitch Effects on Book Covers
This is a collection of book covers which make use of blur, glitch and other distortion effects. The set of four Tove Ditlevsen book covers each exemplify a different kind of blur and glitch effect, so it’s nice to see them all together: Another trio: Here are some other examples of blur and glitch. These […]
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1960s-1970s Lettering in Graphic Design
A designer called Paul Bacon was influential in creating a mid-century look which is back in fashion.
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What architectural style is the house of Psycho?
The Psycho house is similar to what is now called ‘Second Empire Style’. What makes this style of architecture feel so creepy?