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Project Focus: 2-Color Cover Design for Trade Publishers

September 22, 2009 0 comments

For offset printing, 2-color covers can be much more economical than 4-color covers, particularly for short-run books. I discussed two 2-color covers for self-published books in a previous article and explained why these covers are often preferred by publishers. Here I look at two covers done for trade publishers. This first cover was designed for [...]

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Project Focus: 2-color Cover Design for Self-Publishers

September 18, 2009 3 comments

Before the advent of digital printing and print-on-demand production, publishers had no choice but to print on offset presses, and most books today continue to be printed by offset. Book presses are large, noisy, oily pieces of heavy machinery. There are separate parts of the press for each color that will be printed, with separate [...]

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Project Focus: Interior Design for The Age of Participation

September 16, 2009 2 comments

One of the first books I produced for Berrett-Koehler Publishers in San Francisco was The Age of Participation by Patricia McLagan and Christo Nel. The overarching framework of the story of the movement of politics toward participative governance required a theme to hold the parts together yet show their relationship to the whole. These part-opening [...]

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Project Focus: Small Square Books

September 1, 2009 2 comments

For a while clients seemed to be asking for a lot of small, square books. I had done several of these and noticed some similarities in their design. Some types of book are square to accommodate both horizontal and vertical subject matter. A good example is art books of all kinds, paintings, photographs, etchings all [...]

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