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Project Focus: Dancing on the River by Mark Susnow

June 3, 2010 1 comment
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The cover and interior design of a self-help book by a life coach is shown in sample cover and interior design to follow the design process. Mark Susnow worked for almost a year to bring Dancing on the River into production, and the result shows the work that went into it.

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Project Focus: Exotic Life by Lisa Alpine

April 21, 2010 10 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: The Poetry of the Typography of Poetry

February 24, 2010 2 comments

One of the great pleasures of being a book designer is getting to work on books by my friends. There’s a unique form of collaboration that happens when I work with someone I know well, and the book usually shows the result of this process. In 1999 I had the pleasure of helping my friend [...]

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Project Focus: Book Cover Design for The Spirit of the River

December 18, 2009 3 comments

The Spirit of the River (affiliate link) is a terrific novel by Diane McCarthy, published by her own Cloudland Press. I met Diane at an all-day publishing workshop run by the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA) where we are both members. After I finished the book I decided to redesign the cover. Now this [...]

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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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