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Book Cover Design and the Problem of Symbolism

January 17, 2012 22 comments
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Book Cover Design and the Problem of Symbolism advises against putting too many elements on your book cover: keep it simple

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Finding Photographs for a Book or Blog Gets Better

December 21, 2011 9 comments
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Finding Photographs for a Book or Blog Gets Better compares Fotolia.com and iStockphoto.com and looks at the Flickr utility Compfight.com

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5 Great Fonts for Book Covers

August 30, 2011 22 comments
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5 Great Fonts for Book Covers including ChunkFive, League Gothic, Baskerville, Franchise and Trajan

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Project Focus: Cover Design with Supplied Artwork for The “And” Principle

December 11, 2009 4 comments

This is the second article about dealing with a cover design project with artwork supplied by the client. In the first, I looked at the book cover design process for Chris Finlan’s Not A Fire Exit. This time I’m going to look at the designs prepared for Bill Goldberg’s The “And” Principle. Here is the [...]

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Project Focus: Cover Design With Supplied Artwork for Not A Fire Exit

November 24, 2009 6 comments

Over the last few months I’ve designed two book covers that involved artwork supplied by the author. This is a slightly unusual situation and forces you to think in creative ways. If your client hands you a piece of artwork and says, “I love this! I want it on my book cover,” then you had [...]

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