-BOOK DETAILS-
Book Cover Designs
by Matthew Goodman, Foreword by Nicole Caputo
PUBLISHER: Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
PUBLISHING DATE: 28 Feb 2016
GENRE: Arts & Photography
-SYNOPSIS-
Browse more than 500book cover designs and listen to more than 50 of today's top designers discuss their process for creating the perfect book cover. Award-winning creative professionals fromaround the world have applied astonishingly clever cover concepts that playslyly on titles and themes of international bestsellers, both classic andmodern, adding new dimensions to the books and breathing new lifeinto bright ideas. Literature lovers and graphic illustrators of all types, aswell as book design students and professionals, will relish thisinspiring collection of covers of fiction and nonfiction, history and sciencebooks, novels and short stories, from old favorites to popular 21st-centurytitles. For future designers looking for inspiration, as well as hopeless coverlovers, Book Cover Designs is a must-have design reference for any collection. Feelfree to judge these books by their covers.
-REVIEW-
"Book design means communicating clearly through a visually captivating image, one that captures a book's essence and helps the book leap off the shelves and into a reader's hands." Emily Mahon For someone who has been thinking of breaking into the industry of designing book covers, this has been incredibly helpful to my goal. I'm in the process of self studying all forms of art that I can possibly get my hands on; calligraphy, lettering, digital painting to name a few, this book has been an essential read. I realized how there is no specific process to designing. Some designers have gone through lengths of reading the entire book, and some approaching it differently. Others work better on time pressure, while others prefer to set a scheduled list of their designing process. It was a relief to see that my own approach as a designer is both unique and no different to how other designers work. And really, what is most important is voicing out through artwork what the author of the book wishes to showcase to her audience. I have learned so much from this book and I will definitely be on the look out for a print copy at my local bookstore.
*Book Cover Designs was provided by Schiffer Publishing Ltd. through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.