Receiving the brief and researching
Every month each art department are given briefs for upcoming titles from editors, which are then distributed among the team by the art director.
They will decide who the best designer is to take on each project, and then work with that person quite closely throughout the process..
Book cover design layout is the perfect blend of typography and imagery, the most important parts of a book cover design.
It communicates the single message you want to give your readers when they buy your book.
For this, it is crucial that you have a perfect understanding of your target audience..
Beginnings.
The book cover as a way of advertising the book's content did not exist until the late 19th century.
Until then, book bindings—made in leather or vellum—were merely handcrafted protection for expensively printed or hand-written pages..
So, a book cover design from the 1950s will not be relevant anymore even after a couple of decades
The same book has a different cover design today than it was having in the 40’s or 50’s
Keeping that in mind, a study of how the book cover design of some of the famous books changed over the years will be interesting
01One of the key purposes of having a book cover design is to give a glimpse of those in stories and information to the potential reader on the cover
Another purpose of the cover design is to make the reader interested in the book
An attractive book cover is the starting point for a publisher to sell books
Each book has a different story to tell
