I have to confess that my favorite part of book design is creating the chapter opening pages. Ideally the display typography and any other pictorial or decorative elements you use on the chapter opening pages will reflect the type used in the rest of the book,...
This looks like the award time of the year. Last week we got the Ben Franklin Award Finalist lists, now we have the Bay Area Independent Publishers Associaion (BAIPA) 2011 Book Awards. From the official announcement: The 2011 BAIPA book award judging sheets have all...
The monthly meeting of the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA) got underway with a spirited Q & A session lead by Pete Masterson. Meeting attendance has increased recently to the point that we no longer had space for the tables we usually use for...
Last month I was honored to be asked to appear on a panel discussion self-publishing at the Commonwealth Club of California. Put together by Kevin O’Malley of the Commonwealth Club with Paula Hendricks, past president of BAIPA, the series was called...
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...
