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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.
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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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Two Worlds In The Same Illustration
These illustrations show two or more separate environments in a single shot.
