Tag: book design
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When the fonts don’t work
Our art director talks about type problems– when the technology changes.
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On preparing your book for publication
As a publisher, I often interact with people that have self-published a book or sometimes I also sometimes hear from authors that they have already published their book while I had it on my “to be read” pile. As president of the writers group, I interact with people that made…
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Judy Blume and other Dollar Tree Greats
The other day I was getting ready for an event and I got a text from our art director, Gayle. “Look what I found at the Dollar Tree. What do you think of these covers?” “OMG!” I replied. “I was just talking about Judy Blume the other day. I want…
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Fonts friendlier to the dyslexic
Last week, Larry Sceurman launched a children’s book project about a worm that wants more than anything to learn to read. Larry is dyslexic– and he hopes to make his new children’s book friendlier for children who share his challenges. That led Gayle down a rabbit hole… on her way…
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A record of the ERA
We all have subjects that spur passion within us. We all have hobbies. Parisian Phoenix’s art director Gayle Hendricks has always been keenly interested in and a defender of women’s rights, ecology and the environment, the arts, and good type. Gayle lives in her childhood home. Like many people who…
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The trials and tribulations of an art director: searching for the perfect photo
Shortly before Memorial Day a book I designed went to press—Coffee In The Morning by Larry Sceurman. It’s a book of short stories with a photo … searching for the perfect photo
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entering another new world
Sometimes I Get… was originally published by Echo City Capers as a paperback. I was approached to turn it into a hardback book. Their first ever. The actual book was submitted as a high-resolution PDF. I just needed to rework the cover, add copyright information, a letter, and reorder it.…
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Book design, readability and X-height
As part of our presentation with the Apex Writers Group in March, our art director, Gayle Hendricks, made a graphic to convey how x-height in type changes our experience when reading books. She chose some common typefaces that read easily. As authors we often don’t think about book design. As…
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Celebrating cover design, book design and original art
Today is the coldest day so far this winter, with an actual temperate of six degrees Farenheit and an even lower wind chill. This is doubly surprising to me– even as someone accustomed to winter in the northeast United States– because so far this weekend, little, prone-to-be-cold publisher Angel Ackerman…
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