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Interior Design

Book Design: Don’t Get Confused By Typeface Point Sizes

February 1, 2012 21 comments
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Book Design: Don’t Get Confused By Typeface Point Sizes discusses the role of proportion and x-height in relation to book typography

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Finding Photographs for a Book or Blog Gets Better

December 21, 2011 9 comments
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Finding Photographs for a Book or Blog Gets Better compares Fotolia.com and iStockphoto.com and looks at the Flickr utility Compfight.com

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Case Study: Hardcover Adventure Travel

April 5, 2011 4 comments
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Case Study: Hardcover Adventure Travel. The Boy Behind the Gate by Larry Jacobson, a complex typographic design with a lot of other decorative elements

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Self-Publishing Case Study: Nonfiction

December 10, 2010 1 comment
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Self-Publishing Case Study: Nonfiction by Sally Fletcher. Music, Healing and Harmony and the design and production process

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Pagination Styles: Shall We Kill the Widows & Orphans?

October 20, 2010 55 comments
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Pagination Styles: Shall We Kill the Widows & Orphans? As a self-publisher you’ll have to choose one style over another, and live with the results of either stray lines or holes at the bottom of your pages.

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