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Self-Publishing Case Study: Serious Nonfiction

October 1, 2010 7 comments
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Self-Publishing Case Study: Unmaking War, Remaking Men by Kathleen Barry is the first self-published book from an author with traditionally published titles.

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Self-Publishing Case Study: Personal Memoir

September 22, 2010 14 comments
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Self-Publishing Case Study: Personal Memoir The Andrew Street Mob by Brian Marais, a great example of personal self-publishing. Designed for the purposes of the author, it presents a useful model.

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Project Focus: Exotic Life by Lisa Alpine

April 21, 2010 9 comments

Travel writing, never out of fashion, seems to be pretty popular at the moment. And when you get great travel writing imbued with personality, you’ve got something special. That’s why I was really pleased to be called on by Lisa Alpine to design the interior of her new book, Exotic Life: Laughing Rivers, Dancing Drums [...]

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Project Focus: Cover Design with Supplied Artwork for The “And” Principle

December 11, 2009 4 comments

This is the second article about dealing with a cover design project with artwork supplied by the client. In the first, I looked at the book cover design process for Chris Finlan’s Not A Fire Exit. This time I’m going to look at the designs prepared for Bill Goldberg’s The “And” Principle. Here is the [...]

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Project Focus: Interior Design for Business Mensch by Noah Alper

October 1, 2009 0 comments

Books come in all different shapes and sizes and with many different purposes. Book design takes these diverse uses into account. Recently we designed Noah Alper’s Business Mensch, which combines memoir with business advice drawn from the author’s career as an entrepreneur. Along the way Noah tells numerous fascinating stories about the ups and downs [...]

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