Got You Covered: 60+ Layouts for Designing Great eBook Covers
By Maria Poulos
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Illustrated guide with over 60 rough layout ideas for designing eye-catching eBook covers for digital publishing. Written by a professional graphic designer with easy to remember layout names and a brief description of each layout concept. Includes hints on type, color, sizing and position of graphics. Can be used by authors, graphic designers, and students interested in learning page layout techniques or for DYI cover design.
Maria Poulos
Maria Poulos is a professional graphic designer and designed for some of the largest technology corporations in America. She is the owner of Flying Cloud Design, a graphic design studio north of Boston, Massachusetts and works primarily with start-up businesses.Her first published book on design, "Got you Covered: 60+ Layouts for Designing Great eBook Covers", was inspired by a need for creating very small readable thumbnail images on websites to direct traffic to products, such as eBooks and news articles.
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Got You Covered - Maria Poulos
Dedicated to Uncle Spiro
Introduction
Today’s online bookstores need a great looking, inspiring, and click-able
thumbnail to peak curiosity and gain potential sales. I’ve been designing graphics for websites for almost 20 years.
This book gives a basic summary of layout design concepts to be used for reference in creating eBook covers — which will work well as small thumbnail images. The titles and author names displayed on the layouts are completely made-up. I hit upon current themes, interests and general book categories. The layout names are meant to be fun and easy to remember.
There is much to learn about graphic design which is only touched upon throughout