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Design a modern cover: Think simple, clean, and angular

Design a modern cover: Think simple, clean, and angular

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Design a modern cover: Think simple, clean, and angular

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- Hi everybody, John McWade, Senior Author here at lynda.com. Generally speaking you want words and graphics in a design to be sending the same message to work together, to vibrate on the same frequency. You might get away with talking about modern jet travel using a typeface from the Old West, kind of as a one-off sort of thing. But as a rule you want words and graphics to be working together. I have an example. This is a book about modern interior spaces but it's designed in a style that looks nothing like that. Modern generally means minimal. A few lines, simple type, no decoration. This cover has a half dozen attractive images in let's say a jaunty arrangement. Lines skew this way and that. Spaces are unpredictable. The primary typeface is called Mistral. It's brushlike. It looks hand-drawn. It's not angular like the images. The colors, the warm brown background, it doesn't really convey modern. Modern is cooler. So you have a cover that's not only not modern but it took a lot of…

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