Presentations, posters and bubbly social justice infographics. Canva says that you can design
absolutely anything but how easy is it to design a book cover?
Hi it's Divya G. What does the g stand for? The g stands for are you a good for nothing no nepo,
no connection, didn't with the genetic lottery, got the short straw in life?
When the world needed them mostly they returned....
to give us career advice. And i just think like you're given one life and it's down to you what
you do with it. The best advice for women in business? Get your stuff and work! Like you
can literally go in any direction and it seems like nobody wants to work these days. You've not
grown up you know with major money struggles so if you just sit there and say that we will have the
same 24 hours in a day it's not correct and i'm like but technically what i'm saying is correct
we do! No toxic work environments and show up and do the work. If you want something enough you can
achieve it and it just depends to what lengths you want to go to get where you want to be in the
future. It's hard and success is never easy so you just if you put in the work you will see results
it's that simple. I'll go to any length like. Yes! Spill the tea on poverty! There's literally
nothing quite like rich people telling non-rich people that they just simply aren't working hard
enough! Light i don't understand why people wouldn't want to work you know manual labor,
working overtime without getting paid fairly, no rest or meal breaks with child labor practices or
not even getting paid at all but being paid in the experience of
capitalism! Lazy buggers for real. Canva really is the perfect platform to make kim kardashian's
self-help-entrepreneur-unlock-the-secret-steps-business book... using the manual labour of other
people. So here we go can you design a book cover on Canva? Step one: go on Canva. Step two type in
book cover. The answer is yes. *Boop* See here the book templates exist they all look very
trademark canva yeah it's got that stamp just because of this choice of like blob graphics
that's just very like it smells like Canva. Let's put a few ground rules. Rule number one:
try to use as much of Canvas integrated features as much as possible. Rule number two: no going
outside you cannot use any other platform so that means no photoshop, this means no illustrator.
Rule number three: no canva pro we are going bare bones no budget. I really wanted to test myself
what can we make with the resources that we have and rule number four only make the front cover.
Why? Because this video is really not that deep. You see, I wasn't here trying to be
the best graphic designer of 2022 living in england in my small town inside my bedroom
award (although if that was an award it would go to me). The question was really
if you make a cover on canvas is it good enough to rival the general paperback? So here we go i
wanted to make this very Kim i was like okay so the vibe that we're going for here today
is "author just learned how to swear self-help graphic" also known as this. Minimal, simple.
Something you might notice in these really sweary covers is they like to censor it i don't know if
that's like a requirement for the publisher. This cover took me over an hour to make it was
mostly because i was doing you know Kahneman says about you know type 1 and type 2 thinking a lot of
it was just thinking. I was literally just trying to find a font that match um i eventually settled
like Kim did with her divorce! (Congrats). The limitations for unpaid canva is that the letters
are just as skinny as they come there's no like sims 4 customization here, there's no stretching
there's no narrowing. Kim kardashian's best advice for a woman trying to get into the business
by a woman who was already born into the business (kind of). Normally there's like new york times
best seller right? What are kim kardashian's awards and this first thing that came up
teen choice awards. Teen choice award winner and billionaire yeah whatever but come on she's got a
teen choice award she's got multiple actually. We'll be eagerly awaiting her lawyer eyeshadow
palette and like skim's business planner like kim kardashian untapped market right here there
is potential for you to mechandise! What do you think? Can you tell that it's from canva?
I personally think yes. Next one: this one was a submission, actually. Um so this was
from instagram follow me on instagram if you want to influence my next video and anyway. Now all i
was given was a title which is like kind of hard initially i was gonna go for like heart stopper
vibe teen coming of age right? And what i like to do is i always like to sketch it out a little bit
right. It doesn't need to make sense as long as you can communicate kind of the vibe you're
going for so this one was like a girl lying down she's sad and then you've got the title the next
one where like two girls with their feet dangling maybe they're sitting on a kitchen counter they're
living the time of their best teenage lives and like socks and the title and then the last idea
i had was like maybe this girl's like upside down on a sofa or like her feet are in the air
and the title. I'm not trying to vet to be like a director or producer on nickelodeon i don't
know why there are so many feet ideas. So if your cover requires any sort of like font manipulation,
any sort of photographic manipulation, any sort of like anything a little bit more wacky... good
luck charlie. One thing that you can do on canva is import your own images now i don't know if this
was like breaking you know rule number two at the same time it's part of canvas feature so it's also
like rule number one and then i was like you know what this video isn't that deep anyway. Pexels
royalty-free images yum yum. This cover took me around 40 minutes to make still. This turned more
into general commentary fiction than coming of age teen well maybe it's like coming of age, like
mid 20s year old girl who is like chronically online or something so that's why i put like
the pixelated thing on her face and maybe she's i don't know like trying to foster an identity
trying to figure out who is she in this space in her life who is she as a person what does
she stand for what can she do in her mid-20s she's going through all this like existentialism whilst
her friends are all kind of seemingly thriving and everything like i don't i don't know like maybe
it's just like a story of my life or something like i i i i. Kind of like i think you know what?
Just goes to show you know if you are on like a super tight tight super independent you know
budget or whatever that you can create something like passible? Maybe maybe? I mean with enough
creativity you can kind of create something decent for us you know what i'm all about
freeing access to education, breaking down the resources! Now there is a debate to be made about
whether platforms like canva kind of devalue the design space and i can see where the
commentary is coming from because the argument is basically that when you give out this idea
that "yeah you can just create anything looking nice by mixing and matching a bunch of things"
then what do we really need designers for? When you have these like pre-made templates
but firstly consider the fact that someone has to make the templates in the first place
all right. And secondly i feel like design should be more accessible to people like there's no
reason to gatekeep i think there's always going to be a space for good design made by good designers
so i don't think that's necessarily going to go away right? Just because you have canva doesn't
mean anyone can learn what good design is um and there's kind of an art to making things
a bit more organically by yourself anyway and also it's not like designers don't use
resources anyway like you use references you use pexels, you use inspiration from other places
this just kind of make things easier for people who don't have the budget. And also sometimes i
feel like hiring a designer or whatever is not appropriate at all times. Maybe you're still in
high school you just want to make a presentation that doesn't look like it's like you know ariel on
a blank page. I think Canva can really help speed up the process. I don't think there's
anything wrong with that really i don't know what do you guys think about Canva? um if there's any
genres or titles that you'd like me to create on Canva or otherwise any trends that you've spotted
recently and you're like "Hey! Divya! This is like a good topic you know for the future" let me know
let me know! If you want to see more books design or bookish design content then subscribe you
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what did you do this weekend anything interesting on netflix? That's another question.
All right all right hug sweetie- let's go i can't reach you're just gonna okay yeah i'll-
boop and number four i'm only gonna make you getting a little bit really so i'm gonna
start again okay- Open the door open your legs yeah open the not that your legs- like just just-
is that gonna be good enough to make it look like it's a legit cover that wasn't built on canva?
There's probably a catchier way of saying that. Normally there's like new york times best seller
right and i don't know if there is a list for the- oh wait isn't there like a forbes oh crap