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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?
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Making a Posterised Book Cover with AI
Images are posterised when the graphic designer creates large, flat areas of colour or tone. This style is reminiscent of 20th century pop art popularized by Andy Warhol, influenced by the arrival of photography. Photography technologies changed the course of painting forever. And here are some Warhol style capsicums I painted recently, with the photo […]
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Integrating Text and Images in Book Cover Design
This is one of those low effort, big reward tricks which is so very common on professionally designed book covers but relatively rare on less attractive self-published books: The graphic designer integrates the text into the graphic in some way, often to create the illusion of depth.
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Fluorescent, Neon, Glowing Colours On Book Covers
These contemporary book covers all utilise fluorescent, neon or glowing colours to eye-catching effect.
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Collage and Mixed Media on Book Cover Design
Let’s take a look at collage and mixed media effects in contemporary book cover graphic design. The book cover in the header is not a real book. Created for learning purposes only. The central graphic is from The Australian Journal, 1 November 1950 edition.
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Literary Book Covers: Fauvism Blobs and Flat Design
I used an AI art generator to knock up some quick book covers, but I didn’t make books. I made boring supermarket items.
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Review: Kutsuwa T’GAAL Pencil Sharpener
The Kutsuwa T’GAAL pencil sharpener sold to Japanese school children comes highly recommended by pencil enthusiasts. Let’s find out why.
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Single Colour Book Covers
This collection of book covers features black, white and a single colour. Further down, let’s take a look at the wide range of covers utilising only black and white.
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High Key Colour Palettes in Book Cover Design
When talking about ‘colour’ artists are talking about several things rolled into one.
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Coloured Pencils: Prismacolor or White Label?
Today I’ll compare two brands of coloured pencil which come in large sets. I can’t compare any other large coloured-pencil sets because I have only tried Prismacolor and Brutfuner.
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The Difference Between Art Nouveau and Art Deco
Although ‘nouveau’ means ‘new’, Art Deco came afterwards. Art Deco and Art Nouveau are two major art movements of the 20th century.