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…
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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Content note: An image which may be problematic for those with a phobia of holes. TEXTURES
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:
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…
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
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…
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:
In these examples the block of colour backgrounding the text serves the function of separating the text from its background, making it stand out. The shape is not otherwise part of the illustration. Oftentimes, these blocks of colour are part of a collage or mixed media design. (And when I say ‘colour’, this shape is…