So after seeing what I had to say about the first batch of questions, my faithful correspondent came back with more …
6.75 x 9.5, is this the proper size or am i off by a few ticks? … it might help to specify the full size of the book, versus it’s cropped size. …
The short [...]
I got a ?tweet? today from a new Twitter friend. He asked a few questions that seem to capture some of the essence of designing books. Or at least starting to design . There are some basic issues that seem to mark the beginning of all such projects.
[G]enerally, my questions fall into two categories: those [...]
Anyway …
Last week, a kind reader commented that she ?loved [my] maxim,?
Tho shalt not interfere with the reader?s experience of the book they are reading.
What a time to be reminded of what I professed. Ironic even, because I am beginning to rethink the whole notion of the design?and designer?as, preferably, nondescript furniture.
Thanks to an online [...]
Thanks to steady work, my website, and blogging about freelance design and book layout work, I am a microscopically famous book designer?I started out writing ?marginally famous,? but that seemd to be going too far?I like to say. The work actually interferes with my blogging; I cannot even keep up with the blogs I try [...]
I woke up the other morning and I could feel the grin spread across my face, as my work from the night before came to mind. I?m on a couple of projects?one, the layout of a high school chemistry textbook and the other, the design and layout of a very short project on weight training [...]
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