Comments on: Project Focus: Cover Design with Supplied Artwork for The “And” Principle http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2009/12/project-focus-cover-design-with-supplied-artwork-for-the-and-principle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=project-focus-cover-design-with-supplied-artwork-for-the-and-principle Practical Advice to Help Self-Publishers Build Better Books Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:27:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: admin http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2009/12/project-focus-cover-design-with-supplied-artwork-for-the-and-principle/#comment-500 admin Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:07:51 +0000 http://www.thebookdesigner.com/?p=2906#comment-500 @Andres, Thanks for your comments. I hope some of the information here is useful, and certainly design students can use real-world experience. I can see how the three elements being in different sizes might be unpleasant to some people, although it seems appropriate to me because they each play such different roles. On the fonts, I'm not sure I'm following you, but I'd be interested in your suggestions. What did you have in mind? @Andres,

Thanks for your comments. I hope some of the information here is useful, and certainly design students can use real-world experience.

I can see how the three elements being in different sizes might be unpleasant to some people, although it seems appropriate to me because they each play such different roles.

On the fonts, I’m not sure I’m following you, but I’d be interested in your suggestions. What did you have in mind?

]]> By: Andres Rõhu http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2009/12/project-focus-cover-design-with-supplied-artwork-for-the-and-principle/#comment-485 Andres Rõhu Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:14:28 +0000 http://www.thebookdesigner.com/?p=2906#comment-485 At first, your site is very useful: its real goldmine for self-publishers, but also useful for book design students: lots of material explained in easy and consumable way. With examples and explanations. At second, for this work you chose wrong fonts and too many sizes for my taste: every design features at least three different usages, cuttings, sizes of one or two fonts. And you dont linked font usage with illustration. I mean, look at illustration: its "a la picasso", your fonts are "a la office". Think about that, and try to link font style with illustration style. And also with font, you used in typesetting interior. I will pardon, if you typesetted interior with any of those fonts you used in cover design (-; And please, dont take it hard: comments rumbling is sometimes just the place you get the most of information (-; At first, your site is very useful: its real goldmine for self-publishers,
but also useful for book design students: lots of material explained
in easy and consumable way. With examples and explanations.

At second, for this work you chose wrong fonts and too many sizes for my taste: every design features at least three different usages, cuttings, sizes of one or two fonts. And you dont linked font usage with illustration.

I mean, look at illustration: its “a la picasso”, your fonts are “a la office”. Think about that, and try to link font style with illustration style. And also with font, you used in typesetting interior. I will pardon, if you typesetted interior with any of those fonts you used in cover design (-;

And please, dont take it hard: comments rumbling is sometimes just the place you get the most of information (-;

]]> By: admin http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2009/12/project-focus-cover-design-with-supplied-artwork-for-the-and-principle/#comment-437 admin Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:14:04 +0000 http://www.thebookdesigner.com/?p=2906#comment-437 @Betty, thanks. It's a little like "inside the mind of the guy who looks like he's just fooling around at the computer." In this case, unlike a lot of creative work, one can follow the trail that's left by each subsequent iteration of the idea. It think that's neat. @Betty, thanks. It’s a little like “inside the mind of the guy who looks like he’s just fooling around at the computer.” In this case, unlike a lot of creative work, one can follow the trail that’s left by each subsequent iteration of the idea. It think that’s neat.

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