A Book, Well Designed, is a Work of Art

Picture a book. Hold a book in your hands. Feel the texture.  Examine the cover. Look at the publication page, the dedication, the acknowledgments.  Even before you’ve opened to the first page, you’ve come face-to-face with a work of art. Look at the binding, the...

The Future of Book Design

It’s not a stretch to say that great book design begins with a perfectly designed book cover.  Here is a collection of thoughts about the direction of future book covers. Why Not a Collage?  Even as kids, we were encouraged to create collages. Out of newspaper, out of...

Smart Book Cover Design

How many books have you passed over because the cover design did nothing to attract your attention.  It happens far more often than we think.  A poorly designed book cover is a disaster in many ways.  In many ways, it screams “amateur.” And that is not to say that all...

Designing the Interior of Your Book and E-Book

Now that you’ve successfully finished your book, one of the things that most people forget about is the importance of the design of the interior of your book; in other words, an attractive formatting of the words that the reader will see page to page, chapter to...

Designing the Interior of Your Book and E-Book

Now that you’ve successfully finished your book, one of the things that most people forget about is the importance of the design of the interior of your book; in other words, an attractive formatting of the words that the reader will see page to page, chapter to...