Concept of Book Printing Cover Design [Buke Printing]

Concept of Book Printing Cover Design [Buke Printing]

To design an excellent cover structure, it also relies on daily accumulation. Through careful observation in daily life, pay attention to the images of magazines, books, promotional flyers, etc., understand the composition of these graphics, the color schemes used, the fonts and font sizes used, and their impact on the entire image. Through extensive observation, one will naturally understand what is good and what is bad. In order to enhance the observation effect, these elements need to be repeatedly pondered in the mind to form sketches of the intended meaning. This plays an important auxiliary role in design, as it can continuously clarify and deepen the design concept.

① Get inspiration from life. Life is the source of design, and the beauty that exists in life involves the designer's attitude towards life, whether to actively embrace life or passively endure it. Many life phenomena can only become some details in artistic life through design thinking, sublimation, and repeated refinement, which can be subtly remembered and inspire creative inspiration at a certain time.

② Inducing and imagining. Without imagination, it is impossible to engage in artistic imagery thinking. Imaginary activities start with the representation of life in memory, using feelings, experiences, and associations to synthesize free, scattered, and abstract images into a cohesive image that can express emotions and meanings. Everyone will understand and shape their image based on their own personality and social experience, and their perspective and image will also be different. Cover design should leave room for imagination for readers, in order to facilitate creativity. It should be induced rather than imposed on readers.

③ Control imagination. Control the reader's imagination within the scope of their own designed artistic conception, analyze, judge, and select the creative meaning of imagination with logical thinking, extract useful factors, rather than boundless imagination.

④ Subtle beauty. Some books may not be easy to express their content in a positive way, or may directly depict images and be plain. To avoid being completely exposed, it is necessary to indirectly and implicitly express the theme from a side, creating a certain sense of mystery or suspense.

⑤ The 'taste' of design. Cover design should be thought-provoking and adept at reaching a state of beauty through searching. The more plain the picture, the more it requires superb skills and deep expertise to control, to win and surprise in the plain.

⑥ Symbolic meaning. Symbols are the bridge and common language between designers and readers, such as the cross shape and the dove of peace, which are symbols that everyone understands. Symbols can be expressed through abstract geometric shapes, photographs, illustrations, fonts, or numbers.

Concept of Book Printing Cover Design [Buke Printing]