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BOOK COVER DESIGN
Its the impression you receive when you first look at a book, the element that sets the mood for what lies between its pages. Marketing managers believe that the cover is in large part responsible for the amount of sales that the title will bring home to the publisher—or those sales that are lost.
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• TRADE BOOK COVER DESIGN
The six images in the first section below are book covers that I have designed for this web site.
Click each thumbnail to see an enlargement. (Textbook Cover Design)
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The photo illustration was created in Photoshop using two of my own photos then the type was laid in and styled.
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The oil painting is my art. I scanned it, applied several Photoshop filters to it, then laid in the type and styled it.
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The oil painting is my art. I scanned it, laid in the type and styled it.
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The oil painting is my art. I scanned it, applied a dreamlike Photoshop filter to it, then laid in the type and styled it.
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The photograph is my own. I treated it with Photoshop filters to make it look like a colored crayon drawing, laid in the type and styled it.
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The photograph is my own. Using Photoshop I added more sky, then laid in the type and styled it.
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Antiques From The Vault |
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The four book cover designs in this section are from a group of eight I was commissioned to illustrate and design for the Walker Mystery Series during the 1980s. They are all 2-color. Although now out of print, they are still good examples of simple illustration and design.
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SUCH PRETTY TOYS
S.F.X. Dean
Walker & Company
© May, 1982
www.walkerbooks.com
2/C Illustration, design and mechanical
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DEATH WARMED UP
Marian Babson
Walker & Company
© August, 1982
www.walkerbooks.com
2/C Illustration,
design and mechanical
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CAPTAIN BOLTON'S CORPSE
J.G. Jeffreys
Walker & Company
© June, 1982
www.walkerbooks.com
2/C Illustration, design and mechanical
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GONE TO HER DEATH
Pierre Audemars
Walker & Company
© November, 1981
www.walkerbooks.com
2/C Illustration,
design and mechanical
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