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 il ustration.
The spine of the book is an important aspect in book design, especial y 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