Brief: D&AD

The brief I have decided to undertake is a graphic design one sponsored by faber and faber. Here you can find there website.

Outline: Use typography to create a series cover design for Faber Film’s range of books that reflects Faber and Faber’s long history of typographic excellence.

To begin I have decided to research the area of typography and book cover design by sourcing various books on these subjects. These books are detailed below.

Typography:

Jury, David - Title: About face: reviving the rules of typography
McLean, Ruari - Title: The Thames and Hudson manual of typography
Chappell, Warren - Title: A short history of the printed word / Warren Chappell and Robert Bringhurst.
Bringhurst, Robert - Title: The elements of typographic style / Robert Bringhurst. Tschichold, Jan - Title: The new typography : a handbook for modern designers
Author Atkinson, D. W - Title: Grid systems in graphic design
Samara, Timothy - Title: Design evolution : theory into practice : a handbook of basic design principles applied in contemporary design
Elam, Kimberly - Title: Grid systems: principles of organizing type
Lidwell, William - Title: Universal principles of design: [100 ways to enhance usability, influence perception, increase appeal, make better design decisions, and teach through design]
Samara, Timothy - Title: Making and breaking the grid: a graphic design layout workshop (2005) Book
Jury, David - Title: What is typography? (2006)
McLean, Ruari - Title: The Thames and Hudson manual of typography

Cover Design

Drew, Ned - Title By its cover : modern American book cover design
Powers, Alan - Title: Front cover : great book jackets and cover design
Title: Fully booked : cover art & design for books.

I have also been looking at Faber Finds. This is the current Print on Demand service which faber and faber currently run for various back catalogue books. These books are very uninspiring!!! Below show two example of the POD template which each book is designed to. I am looking at these because the brief also states that the cover design will be for the Faber Film series of books which will also be published using this technology.