Case Study: The Boy Behind the Gate by Larry Jacobson Design Brief: The author and his partner were the first gay couple to sail around the world. Larry, a former marketing executive, made a complete break with his former life and spent seven years traveling around...
Ed: This post is one of a series on Book Design for Self-Publishers. In the first article we looked at getting the raw materials for your book design project organized. In the second we looked at an overview of the book design workflow. With this article we turn to...
This is a story of failure. My failure, and the failure of my whole book design process. It’s about books that go bad, and the tragedy of a book design spiraling into the void. How could things have gone so wrong? It all started out well enough. An optimistic...
For some time we’ve been moaning about how bad most ebooks look, the poor typography, the feeble attempts to make ebooks look like printed books, which they do not resemble in any meaningful way. The litany of complaints from typographers and book designers...
Looking at the actual files we print books from, like the Adobe InDesign files I produce, can be quite revealing. I get sent a lot of files for various reasons. They might be the files from a self-publisher who thought they would design and lay out their book...
by Will Entrekin I met Will Entrekin on Twitter, and here on my blog where he comments. Will is a novelist and has self-published a number of books. He sent me the cover of a recent collaboration and I asked if he would write about the experience of designing book...
