Minimalism as an art movement to simplify artwork

and to strip it down to its fundamentals features. This

influenced graphic design, with Pelican book covers and

the film posters of Saul Bass.

Minimalist design has been highly influenced by Japanese

traditional design and architecture. In addition, the work of De

Stijl artists is a major source of reference for this kind of work.

De Stijl expanded the ideas that could be expressed by using

basic elements such as lines and planes organized in very

particular manners.

Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style,

format, design, and sequence of the various components of

a book into a coherent whole.

The front cover is the front of the book, and is marked

appropriately, by text and/ or graphics, in order to identify it as

such, namely as the very beginning of the book. The front

cover usually contains at least the title and/ or author, with possibly

an appropriate illustration.

The spine of the book is an important aspect in book design, especially

in the cover design. When the books are stacked up or stored in a

shelf, the details on the spine is the only visible surface that contains the

information about the book. In a book store, it is often the details on

the spine that attract the attention first