Essex Book Cover Design Conceptualization 10-28.ppt

1. Types of book cover designs.
2. What makes a good cover design?
3. Parts of the book cover.
4. How to execute the creation process.
5. Art illustration creation process.

1. Types of book cover designs.

Text Only design
Contains the text (font) only with no art illustration
or photo image.
Professional photo image cover design
This design contains a strong image of the author and
It’s the mostly dominating image on the design cover.
Full Mixed Media cover design
This is the most complex type of design. It can be graphics elements, illustrated art and or photo images (collages).
Children’s Book Illustration cover design
This design is basically created from one of the main scene of the book, that depict the title and contains the main characters.

The creative and art illustration process.

1. The Creative and art illustration process.
Essex J. James
Creative Digital Art Sr. Designer/Illustrator

2. 1. Types of book cover designs.
2. What makes a good cover design?
3. Parts of the book cover.
4. How to execute the creation
process.
5. Art illustration creation process.
We will discuss the book cover design
concept and the creation process.
The creative and art illustration process.

3. 1. Types of book cover designs.
Text Only design
Contains the text (font) only with no art illustration
or photo image.
Professionalphotoimagecoverdesign
Thisdesigncontainsastrongimageoftheauthorand
It’sthemostlydominatingimageonthedesigncover.
FullMixedMediacoverdesign
Thisisthemostcomplextypeofdesign.Itcanbegraphicselements,
illustratedartandorphotoimages(collages).
Children’sBookIllustrationcoverdesign
Thisdesignisbasicallycreatedfromoneofthemainscene
ofthebook,thatdepictthetitleandcontainsthemain
characters.
The creative and art illustration process.

4. 2. What makes a good cover design?
Book Title
Strong font selection and color should domain the book
cover design.
Teaser
Agooddesignteaserisabriefdescriptionormainpointtoaccompt
thetitle.
Ithasastrongimage
Ithasgooddesignthatisaestheticallypleasingtotheeyeand
hasagoodbalance&contract.
Agoodrepresentationoftheauthor
Thisdesignisagoodrepresentationoftheauthor.Thisdesignincludesthe
author’snameorbrandingtitle.
The creative and art illustration process.

5. 3. Parts of the book cover
Front cover
This the first thing that
is seem and it should
have carefully
consideration.
We creating the hold
book cover jacket, it is
always on the left.
Spine:
ContainstheAuthorandbooktitle.
Allbookthathavespine.(Atlease101pages)
Backcover:
1.Booktitle
2.Authorphoto
3.Aboutthebook
4.Contactinfo
5. Price or
Barcode number
The creative and art illustration process.

6. Author Photo
The creative and art illustration process.
Book Title
Art image of a
calendar
Author Name
Subtitle
Create cover rough sketch
4. How to execute the creation process.

7. The creative and art illustration process.
The design usually
has revisions &
updates.
Final design
submitted
4. How to execute the creation process.

8. The creative and art illustration process.
Art illustration creation process.
It all starts with characters creation.

9. The creative and art illustration process.
Art illustration creation process.
This main scene, that was describe by
the author, was
use to create the
cover art for the
book.

10. The creative and art illustration process.
Art illustration creation process.
The cover
design reflects
the main scene
and translate
into the cover
art illustration.

11. What are the key concepts of
Scientific Method?
Review
"Imagination is more important than knowledge.“
Albert Einstein
Questions!
I hope this was helpfully
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