For our Digital Publishing module, we’re creating an ebook for M. R. James’ ghost stories, which are out of copyright. I designed two covers, playing around with the Blending Options, colors and textures in Photoshop to make them look different. I went with 2400 x 1600 px for the cover size, which Melody Simmons recommends as the…
Category: Book Design
Think GRIDS and SPACE
River = space between words – you don’t want big gaps, want enough space to read nicely GRIDS ARE building blocks Hyphenation: FEWER IS BETTER Grids are the hidden architecture of page layouts GOOD TEXT DESIGN l e t y o u r t e x t b r e a t …
Designing with Becky Chilcott
Every week, we learn so much with Becky Chilcott, a freelance graphic designer who’s had over twelve years of experience in publishing. This Monday was a challenge as our MA class had to design a cover to a brief. The above covers are my attempts at creating an alternate cover for Pillars of Light by Jane Johnson, published by…
Design task: cover design
This week we matched fonts to 7 different images and then choose one to make a cover out of, without editing the image and just focusing on the typeface. We had to be careful to add all the correct elements, barcode, logo, retail price, etc. This is the one I chose and the cover I…
Working with images
We learned all about images today and working with imagery. If you want to search for images, check out the Picture Research Libraries and illustration agencies lists compiled by Becky Chilcott. Images have different licensing, e.g. Rights Managed; Royalty Free; Microstock. You can find out about it in more detail here with BAPLA. We learned about two very important basics…
Reading between the Fonts 