Free blank thumbnails for book design.

When I design the cover for a book I like to read the book first, this is not always pos­si­ble, but it is impor­tant to talk at length with the author and get the feel­ing and mean­ing of the book. The next step is research­ing the book to find related infor­ma­tion about the topic or genre. Tak­ing that infor­ma­tion into account, I find it impor­tant to brain­storm. I like to get away from the com­puter and sketch out ideas on paper. One great exer­cise is to take a page full of blank thumb­nails and quickly sketch out dif­fer­ent ideas. It’s a fun way to find con­nec­tions and mean­ings and develop a rela­tion­ship between the book and the cover.

To make it eas­ier for myself, I’ve cre­ated few pages of blank thumb­nails that I use when I work on book jack­ets, and I’d like to share them with you. Included on the PDF are thumb­nails for hard cover, paper­backs and for fun I threw in a tri-fold brochure. Down­load them, print them and brain­storm away! Please use them and pass them along if you found them useful.

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Don’t for get to check out my port­fo­lio and see some book jack­ets I’ve designed.

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