How a Book Cover is Designed

Watch Lauren Panepinto, Creative Director of Orbit Books, design a book cover from scratch while talking us through the entire process from brief to final. 

While Muddy Colors usually focuses on book covers utilizing a freelance illustrator, this demo will show the other half of book covers - ones fully designed in house using designer-created and/or found imagery.

Much of the overall process is the same, however, if you want to be an illustrator that works on book covers this demo will give you a behind the scenes look into a process most folks outside publishing don't get to see.

This video begins with a lecture about the publishing process, and concludes with a real-time demo of Lauren designing a cover.