Seasoned designer Debbie Berne presents an accessible introduction to book design for authors, editors, and other book people.   Design is central to the appeal, messaging, and usefulness of books, but to most readers, it’s mysterious or even invisible. Through interiors as well as covers, designers provide structure and information that shape the meaning and experience of books. In The Design of Books, Debbie Berne shines a light on the conventions and processes of her profession, revealing both the aesthetic and market-driven decisions designers consider to make books readable and beautiful. In clear, unstuffy language, Berne reveals how books are put together, with discussions of production considerations, typography and fonts, page layouts, use of images and color, special issues for ebooks, and the very face of each book: the cover.    The Design of Books speaks to readers and directly to books’ creators—authors, editors, and other publishing professionals—helping them to become more informed partners in the design of their projects. Berne lays out the practical steps at each stage of the design process, providing insight into who does what when and offering advice for authors on how to be effective advocates for their ideas while also letting go and trusting their manuscripts with teams of professionals. She includes guidance as well for self-publishing authors, including where to find a designer, what to expect from that relationship, and how to art direct your own book.   Throughout, Berne teaches how understanding the whats, hows, and whys of book design heightens our appreciation of these cherished objects and helps everyone involved in the process to create more functional, desirable, and wonderful books.   Read more

A gorgeously designed full-color visual biography that brings Terry Pratchett’s universally beloved Discworld to life as never before and pays tribute to an enduring creative collaboration.“It's still magic, even if you know how it's done.” –Sir Terry PratchettDesigning Terry Pratchett’s Discworld is a celebration of Discworld art and a brilliant homage to the decades-long collaboration between artist Paul Kidby and Sir Terry Pratchett that takes readers behind the scenes of one of the great creative partnerships.It shows how the Discworld was brought to visual life—from the earliest sketches to the final magnificent masterpieces—and how Pratchett and Kidby were influenced by art and pop culture, fusing them into the Discworld universe. While Pratchett was the undisputed creative fountainhead, for three decades Kidby has been the artistic force taking the people, places, and pieces of man-eating luggage from Terry's ever-fertile imagination right into our world.Packed with never-before-seen art and the stories behind it, it is a must-have for Pratchett fans of all ages. Read more

Very Demure Very Spooky Coloring Book by Southern Lotus.A coloring book that blends elegance and charm with a touch of spookiness. Featuring cute and easy designs, this collection of illustrations offers a unique mix of cozy and weird with mystical yet adorable creatures.Here's what the book offers:- 40 cute and easy designs- Large size 8.5x8.5 inches.- All pages are printed on single-sided paper, making it easy to color and tear out. If using markers or other wet mediums, place a blank sheet underneath your coloring page for the best coloring experience!- Share meaningful gifts with your loved ones or friends to spread love, laughter, and joy. Read more

A grid system is a rigid framework that is supposed to help graphic designers in the meaningful, logical and consistent organization of information on a page. It is an established tool that is used by print and web designers to create well-structured, balanced designs. Rudimentary versions of grid systems existed since the medieval times, but a group of Swiss graphic designers, mostly inspired in ideas from typographical literature started building a more rigid and coherent system for page layout. The core of these ideas were first presented by Müller-Brockmann who helped to spread the knowledge about the grids thorough the world. This volume provides guidelines and rules for the function and use for grid systems from 8 to 32 grid fields which can be used for the most varied of projects, the three-dimensional grid being treated as well. Exact directions for using all of the grid systems possibe presented are given to the user, showing examples of working correctly on a conceptual level. Read more

Large Print Dot To Dot Book For Seniors .This Dot-To-Dot Book for men, women and even youths is great for someone who just likes to relax connecting the dot-to-dots.. Every Easy Dot-To-Dot picture is printed on its own 8.5 x 11 inch page. Make one of the best decisions this year and get your copy of this great Easy To Read Large Print Dot-to-Dot Book For Seniors while you still can.Large Print Dot-to-Dot Book For Seniors. This Dot-To-Dot Book for men, women and even youths is great for someone who just likes to connecting the dot-to-dots. Every Easy Dot-To-Dot picture is printed on its own 8.5 x 11 inch page. Read more

Large Print Dot-to-Dot Book For Seniors This Dot-To-Dot Book for men, women and even youths is great for someone who just likes to relax connecting the dot-to-dots.. Every Easy Dot-To-Dot picture is printed on its own 8.5 x 11 inch page. Make one of the best decisions this year and get your copy of this great Large Print Dot-to-Dot Book For Seniors while you still can.This fun jumbo dot-to-dot book for adults and seniors is great for someone who likes to relax using connect the dots of beautiful butterflies, animals, birds, Sea Life and more. The large print numbers make it easy to read and complete each puzzle.This book is very nice gift for Christmas,Valentine’s day,Mothers day, EasterBook details:Large 8.5 x 11" inchprofessional-quality designs and 95+ designsGreat for all pen, pencil, and marker typesHours upon hours of coloring enjoymentIdeal for any skill level Read more

Featuring countless contemporary layout examples and practical information, New Page Design provides readers with a solid technical foundation for successful editorial design. Now in paperback, New Page Design offers a comprehensive technical explanation of basic layout principles, a crucial graphic design field that covers the arrangement of typefaces, images, colours, objects, and grids on a page. New Page Design presents also a panorama of contemporary editorial design trends and styles through a selection of 100 projects, from newspapers and magazines to catalogues, books, brochures and posters. Supported by case studies and tips and tricks, within this book readers will gain an overall understanding of the fundamentals of editorial design, including paper size, typographic units, the history of typography and the styles of different typefaces, layout elements, interaction between sections, and the optimum way to visually convey a message. It is a perfect reference for designers who are looking for practical solutions and inspiration. The book includes interviews with Bruch —Idee & Form, Any Studio, Pyramid and Linus Lohoff.Designers included and the countries they are working from at the moment of publication. Argentina: Mane Tatoulian. Australia: M. Giesser. Austria: Bruch—Idee & Form, Dominik Langegger. Brazil: Candice Alencar, Nayelli Jaraba, Estúdio Lampejo, Lucas Depolo Machado. Canada: Blok Design. Chile: Cristóbal Riesco. Denmark: Line Marie Rasmussen, Rasmus Jappe Kristiansen. Finland: Bond Creative Agency, Finland Tania Hoffrén, France: Empire, Syndicat, GeneralPublic, My Name is Wendy, Studio Fréro. Germany: Any Studio, Bureau Borsche, Carina Mähler, komma team, Miriam König, Moby Digg, Slanted Publishers. Guatemala: Andrés Higueros (+Mexico).Italy: Brando Corradini, Carla Cabras, Due Collective, Gusto IDS, Muttnik. Poland: Karolina Pietrzyk. Portugal: Sofia Felgueiras. Russia: Alsu Gilmanova, Ekaterina Nikolaeva, Galya Dautova and Karina Yazylyan, Timur Babaev . Spain: Clara.B Landín, creanet, David Reca, Leticia Ortín, Linus Lohoff. Sweden: Amanda & Erik, Studio Ahremark. The Netherlands: Format Wars. Turkey: Fatih Hardal. UK: Pyramid (+Portugal), Vincenzo Marchese Ragona. USA: Brian Liu (LA, CA), Pouya Ahmadi (Chigago, IL), Sagmeister & Walsh (NY, NY). Read more

Yusuke Oono, born in Germany and trained as an architect, has designed a surprising twist on the pop-up book. As its title suggests, unfolding this petite book in a circular fashion results in a 360-degree panoramic scene. Here, the classic fairy tale is revisited in a progression from light to dark. With the dwarves and animals cheerfully working and playing on one side, Snow White stands hesitatingly in the middle as the witch beckons with her cursed apple from the murky forest depths. Read more

Imagine a world without Principia Mathematica, Rights of Man, the Bible, Shakespeare, or the Mahabharata. Remarkable Books features 75 of the world’s most momentous titles – from The Art of War to Anne Frank’s Diary – and reveals their far-ranging impact.Books are the medium through which scientists, storytellers, and philosophers introduce their ideas. Discover seminal religious and political titles, cornerstones of science such as On the Origin of Species, and ancient texts such as the I Ching, which is still used today to answer fundamental questions about human existence.Get up close to see fascinating details, such as Vesalius’ exquisite anatomical illustrations in Epitome, Leonardo da Vinci’s annotated notebooks, or the hand-decorated pages in the Gutenberg Bible. Discover why Euclid’s Elements of Geometry was the most influential maths title ever published, and marvel at rare treasures such as the Aubin Codex, which tells the history of the Aztecs and the early Spanish colonial period in Mexico. Remarkable Books gathers stories, diaries, scientific treatises, plays, dictionaries, and religious texts into a stunning celebration of the power of books. Read more

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires comes a nostalgic and unflinchingly funny celebration of the horror fiction boom of the 1970s and ’80s.   Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of two iconic decades . . . if you dare. Page through dozens and dozens of amazing book covers featuring well-dressed skeletons, evil dolls, and knife-wielding killer crabs! Read shocking plot summaries that invoke devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate! Horror author and vintage paperback book collector Grady Hendrix offers killer commentary and witty insight on these trashy thrillers that tried so hard to be the next Exorcist or Rosemary’s Baby. Complete with story summaries and artist and author profiles, this unforgettable volume dishes on familiar authors like V. C. Andrews and R. L. Stine, plus many more who’ve faded into obscurity. Also included are recommendations for which of these forgotten treasures are well worth your reading time and which should stay buried. Read more

First and only book of book cover design masterpieces by Tadanori Yokoo.Tadanori Yokoo, born in 1936, is one of the most successful and internationally recognized graphic designers and artists in Japan. In the late 1960s he became interested in mysticism and psychedelia, deepened by travels in India. Because his work was so attuned to 1960s pop culture, he has often been (unfairly) described as the Japanese Andy Warhol or likened to psychedelic poster artist Peter Max, but Yokoo's complex and multi-layered imagery is intensely autobiographical and entirely original. By the late 60s he had already achieved international recognition for his work and was included in the 1968 Word & Image exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Four years later MoMA mounted a solo exhibition of his graphic work organized by Mildred Constantine. This book is the first and only collection in which all of his book cover designs in past 55 years, that are around 1,000 pieces, will be included. Read more

Book design is a process of visualizing the text. The material composition of a book is established by packaging, folding, hiding, cutting, and other design techniques according to the ideas it carries inside. The process of book design includes the analysis of the form and visual effect of the book in the front-press, mid-press, and post-press processes. It is an artistic design including format, cover, layout, materials, binding and printing technologies.Reading gives life to books, and book design adds beauty to reading. Designers need to consider the transmission of text information and think about those sensory information that cannot be clearly labeled in text form. Excellent book design is to build a bridge of spiritual communication between the author and the reader, so that the book content and design are perfectly presented. Therefore, the readers' cognitive world is built.The book focuses on the unique structural design of books, while accompanied by a wealth of work cases, a detailed analysis of the overall text reading structure, narrative language, materials used, printing technologies, and other aspects of each book work, to bring readers an extraordinary visual feast of book form and design. Read more

Defying every expectation of what a book can be, this pop-up extravaganza transforms into six fully functional tools.Never has humble paper had such radical ambitions."As impossible as it seems, this brilliant book allows its reader to manipulate scientific concepts like light, sound, time, and space. It is an irresistible treat for all ages."—Amazon reviewerA completely unique and incredibly cool pop-up science book for adults and kids who love design, interactive art, and paper toys, This Book is a Planetarium is a single volume that turns into:A working planetarium book projecting constellations on the ceilings and wallsA musical instrument with strings to strumA geometric drawing generatorAn infinite calendarA message decoderA speaker that amplifies sound Artist Kelli Anderson contributes enlightening text alongside each pop-up, explaining the scientific principles at play in her constructions and creating an interactive experience that's as educational as it is extraordinary. Inspiring awe that lasts long after the initial pop, This Book Is a Planetarium leaves readers with a renewed appreciation for the way things work—and for the enduring magic of books. Perfect for:Fans of adult pop-up books like Robert Sabuda's Encyclopedia Prehistorica Dinosaurs: The Definitive Pop-Up, Matthew Reinhart's Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Guide to Hogwarts, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Interactive MinaLima editionBirthday, Father's Day, Mother's Day, graduation, holiday, and roommate gifts for men and womenDisplaying alongside art, fashion, and design coffee table books or gift books that celebrate science such as Neil deGrasse Tyson's Welcome to the Universe in 3D Read more

This stunning treasury features full-page plates of the finest works by the famed English artist, Arthur Rackham (1867–1939). A leading figure in the early twentieth century's Golden Age of Illustration, Rackham interpreted scenes from such diverse material as fairy tales, Wagnerian opera, and Shakespearean comedy. His memorable images, which combine whimsy, romance, and sophistication, continue to enchant children and adults alike.Magnificently reprinted from more than 25 rare early editions, these 86 illustrations were selected from hundreds of possibilities and include many plates that have not been reproduced in decades. They span Rackham's career — from his landmark 1905 edition of Rip Van Winkle to masterworks such as Undine and A Midsummer Night's Dream and his final publication, Wind in the Willows, in 1939. Art lovers, book collectors, and anyone with an appreciation for imaginative visual storytelling will prize this marvelous treasury. Read more

* A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice *The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of historyThe illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge. However, we generally think much less about the countless men and women who made, collected and preserved them through the centuries, and to whom they owe their existence.This entrancing book describes some of the extraordinary people who have spent their lives among illuminated manuscripts over the last thousand years: a monk in Normandy, a prince of France, a Florentine bookseller, an English antiquary, a rabbi from central Europe, a French priest, a Keeper at the British Museum, a Greek forger, a German polymath, a British connoisseur and the woman who created the most spectacular library in America—all of them members of what Christopher de Hamel calls the Manuscripts Club.This exhilarating fraternity, and the fellow enthusiasts who come with it, throw new light on how manuscripts have survived and been used by very different kinds of people in many different circumstances. Christopher de Hamel’s unexpected connections and discoveries reveal a passion that crosses the boundaries of time. We understand the manuscripts themselves better by knowing who their keepers and companions have been.In 1850 (or thereabouts) John Ruskin bought his first manuscript “at a bookseller’s in a back alley.” This was his reaction: “The new worlds which every leaf of this book opened to me, and the joy I had in counting their letters and unravelling their arabesques as if they had all been of beaten gold—as many of them were—cannot be told.” The members of de Hamel’s club share many such wonders, which he brings to us with scholarship, style and a lifetime’s experience. Read more

Why do some book covers instantly grab your attention, while others never get a second glance? Fusing word and image, as well as design thinking and literary criticism, this captivating investigation goes behind the scenes of the cover design process to answer this question and more.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWAs the outward face of the text, the book cover makes an all-important first impression. The Look of the Book examines art at the edges of literature through notable covers and the stories behind them, galleries of the many different jackets of bestselling books, an overview of book cover trends throughout history, and insights from dozens of literary and design luminaries. Co-authored by celebrated designer and creative director Peter Mendelsund and scholar David Alworth, this fascinating collaboration, featuring hundreds of covers, challenges our notions of what a book cover can and should be. Read more

Once upon a time, only typesetters needed to know about kerning, leading, ligatures, and hanging punctuation. Today, however, most of us work on computers, with access to hundreds of fonts, and we’d all like our letters, reports and other documents to look as good – and as readable – as possible. But what does all the confusing terminology about ink traps, letter spacing, and visual centering mean, and what are the rules for good typography? Type Matters! is a book of tips for everyday use, for all users of typography, from students and professionals to anyone who does any layout design on a computer. The book is arranged into three chapters: an introduction to the basics of typography; headline and display type; and setting text. Within each chapter there are sections devoted to particular principles or problems, such as selecting the right typeface, leading, and the treatment of numbers. Examples throughout show precisely what makes good typography – and, crucially, what doesn’t. Authoritatively written and designed by a practitioner and teacher of typography, Type Matters! has a beautifully clear layout that reinforces the principles discussed throughout. Read more

Bring some charming awesome travel destination vibes to your living/working space with “GREECE”:Large Stack Decorative Black & White Coffee Table Book, Beautiful Travel Photography-Inspired Interior Design Element for Home/Office DecorPerfect for Bookshelves, End tables, Night tables, Living Room & Bedroom as well as Hotels & Travel Agency Offices & Beach Houses8.25' x 11', 500 Pages, Cool Matte Cover, Dot Grid Paper Interior with NO CONTENT INSIDE Read more

***This is a BLANK, decorative book for home decor, interior design and etc.You can place these decorative display books:Coffee tableBookshelvesNightstandsBedside tablesHome officesEntrywaysBedroomsLiving roomsKitchensGiftsBook details:Size: 8.25” x 11”Paper: white paperPages: 200 pagesModern, elegant and minimalist Read more

Are you frustrated that your self-published masterpiece looks amateur? Discover the cool coding tricks the pros use to make every layout shine.Are you running your author business on a shoestring and struggling to build a good-looking epub file? Does your eBook converter mangle your manuscript? Worried that your words will look worse when you transfer to the required format? Software engineer and developer Sergey Skudaev has a gift for explaining geeky hard stuff in easy-to-follow plain English. Now he’s here to show you how a few simple tasks can turn those hundreds of pages you sweated over into a polished, professional online publication.The Ultimate eBook Creator is a straightforward manual to help you adapt your project into a gorgeous work. Split into two parts, you’ll learn what’s under the epub hood and how to easily tweak your output into a beautiful design. Or if you wish to skip the code-writing, Skudaev shows you how to use free software to wave a magic publishing wand. By following these clear-cut tactics, you’ll soon be confidently producing stunning art while keeping costs low and brimming with indie pride.In The Ultimate eBook Creator, you’ll discover:How to fix automatically created epub files to rival the very best products on the marketWays to dive into unfamiliar acronyms such as HTML and CSS that make tweaking your book a pleasureTechniques for making top-quality covers using various software to stretch your budget furtherTools for converting formats and outputting perfect files to suit every retailer’s needsOver 200 screenshots, a downloadable demo book for practice, specialized layouts for children’s books, photography and art, and much, much more!The Ultimate eBook Creator is a timesaving resource for any do-it-yourself-driven author. If you like detailed expertise, straightforward methods, and technology simply explained, then you’ll love Sergey Skudaev’s thorough guidebook for all bootstrappers.Buy The Ultimate eBook Creator to demystify the secret to formatting beauty today! Read more