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Graphic Classics
Cover iIlustration by Michael Cho: http://chodrawings.blogspot.com/2009/09/penguin-classics-don-delillos-white.html Vernerable publisher Penguin has quietly been putting out a series of “Graphic...
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By Its Cover
One of the fiction nominees for Amazon's Best Book Cover of 2009 The old adage is right: you can’t judge a book by its cover. On the other hand, the cover still makes a difference. In a recent New York...
View ArticleBy Its Cover: A Book Cover Contest
Did our last post on book covers convince you that cover design makes a difference? Want to try your hand at it? Design blog Venus febriculosa is running a book cover design contest for Umberto Eco’s...
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Love Letter to the Deckle Edge
Photograph from My Wings Books - http://www.mywingsbooks.com/coll-terms/edg02_.shtml If all the recent talk about the iPad and the Amazon/Macmillan ebook pricing catfight has you longing for a simpler...
View ArticleBook Design Nerdery, Part I: Designing a Cover
Have you ever wondered how book covers get designed? This video shows how Orbit Books’ Creative Designer Lauren Panepinto designed the cover for an upcoming novel. The whole process took over 6 hours,...
View ArticleBook Design Nerdery, Part II: Choosing a Font
Penguin has put out a neat little series of videos with book designers talking about their favorite fonts. Why? As one designer puts it, “Choosing a font is as personal as choosing what color you might...
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The Challenges of Digital Typesetting
image credit - Flickr: bloomimwhomAbu Dhabi’s The National offers this fascinating piece by Peter Robins about typesetting ebooks: “Designing a printed book is remarkably different from designing an...
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U.K. vs. U.S. covers
When British books are published in the United States, and vice versa, publishers don’t generally change the text to cater to their audiences across the pond. Okay, they often adjust the spelling of a...
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On Choosing A Font
My sister, a engineering professor, is writing a book about how to encourage women to pursue engineering. She plans to self-publish the book through Lulu, since the print on demand strategy makes...
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“The blowtorch is the secret weapon in design”
Image credit: Flicker - hyper7pro Think book designers are namby-pamby design nerds hunched over their Macs? Think again. The Guardian reveals the secret, extreme lengths designers will go to in order...
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