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Consulted Robin Lane Fox’s book ‘Alexander the Great’ today. It is a monument of scholarship, but I wish Fox had made the book easier to navigate for the reader by adding chapter and/or part titles.

It is divided into the imaginatively-named Chapter One, Chapter Two, ..., Chapter Thirty, which are grouped into the equally-creative Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four.

There is no indication of the subject or timeframe covered in each chapter.

The table of contents (attached) doesn't even bother to list the chapters, which is fair enough, since there is no particular reason to want to find a particular chapter. The ToC would be just as useful if it replaced the four parts with a single ‘Main Text’ entry.

I suppose the lack of running heads at least shows consistency, since there is no reason to want to know the chapter at which one has opened the book.

#typography #BookDesign #Bookstodon #rant

[FR] C'est toujours un plaisir de découvrir le livre que l’on a réalisé en physique ! Voici le roman de Mardi Forestier, *Avale-tout*. Il s'agit du deuxième livre de la collection de science-fiction de @ateliertemeraire. Ce livre a été réalisé grâce aux technologies « web-to-print » (nous comptons désormais deux collections produites selon ces techniques).
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[ENG] It’s always a pleasure to see the book you made in physics! Here the novel compilation of Mardi Forestier, Avale-tout. It’s the second book for the science-fiction collections of @ateliertemeraire . The book is made with web-to-print technologies (now we have 2 collections made with this technics).

Illustration : @rien_de_nouveau_ici

#webtoprint #bookdesign #publish

Hey Fediverse! After leaving Instagram behind, I'm making this my new home. Time for a proper #introduction. #neuhier

I'm Fabian, a graphic designer and artist from Leipzig, Germany. I'll be sharing projects like books, prints, a board game system I'm tinkering with, and some journal entries from my archive.

I also speak German and a bit of Korean, but will mostly post in English.

Glad to be here! :)

#graphicdesign #leipzig #design #photography #bookdesign #boardgames

RE: https://piaille.fr/@ateliertemeraire/116789102454566539

Pas peu fier d’avoir réalisé la DA pour la collection SF de @ateliertemeraire. On a enfin reçus le deuxième de la collection !

#web2print #graphicdesign #bookdesign

We're looking for an Art Director to shape the visual identity of our trade art-book publishing program. The role will be onsite at Letterform Archive in San Francisco. Read more and apply: https://jobs.gusto.com/postings/letterform-archive-art-director-bc57def7-c25d-4231-ae4b-522f7488269d

#BookDesign #ArtDirector #DesignJobs

der Buchdesigner Chip Kidd sagte mal, ein Buchcover soll auf keinen Fall nochmal das abbilden, das der Buchtitel eh schon aussagt.

darum mag ich die zwei Buchcover links.

am Cover rechts ist *nur* gut, dass die Tür wenigstens anders aussieht, als ich mir Türen vorstelle. (das Buch selbst mochte ich. aber der Titel: hm. 😅 ) #books #bookstodon #bookdesign #buchcover

🎉 Breaking news! A 3D-printed book can now convert its own G-code into raised lettering. Because clearly, what humanity needed was a self-referencing paperweight that’s slightly bumpier. 📚🤖
https://www.designboom.com/design/3d-printed-book-manual-darius-ou-benson-chong/ #3Dprinting #Gcode #Innovation #TechNews #BookDesign #HackerNews #ngated

Working on a book and website about Allium's (just layout, not my work) - anyone in the fediverse interested in #allium #flora #flowers #bookdesign #photography ?

Thanks to Daniel for posting this beautiful book (published 1550). Look at the mechanical perfection of the spacing/rhythm/colour. #typography #bookdesign

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wwym6cglvbd5odxfkykn2uh2/post/3mgcaw5kcw22v

This is the right amount of margin. You may not like it but this is what peak margin looks like. #bookdesign #typography #astronomy #science

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vqgovau5gkirnk3ss5qwjdmz/post/3mgbhxbrb742a

If I had to choose three references in book design, these would be the only ones.
Maspero, la Fabrique and robert lafont #bookdesign #collection #cover

I’ve spent a huge amount of time since the start of 2026 working on book design for Shiraki Press, and while I’m immensely proud of these results, it’s also one of the scariest things I’ve ever done! 😨

https://joshsutphin.com/blog/doing-it-scared.html

#bookdesign #publishing #smallpress

My recent post about Luca Pacoli cited Noam Andrews's fascinating book ‘The Polyhedrists: Art and Geometry in the Long Sixteenth Century’ [https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262046640/the-polyhedrists/].

It seems that in 2023 it won a bronze medal from the Stiftung Buchkunst in the category ‘Best Book Design from all over the World’ [https://www.stiftung-buchkunst.de/best-book-design-from-all-over-the-world/die-praemierten/detail/the-polyhedrists/?view=grid&year=2023].

I can only assume that the judges did not evaluate the design by actually reading the book.

The prize citation says: ‘Type area, typeface and the pictures' warm mood radiate a sense of calm. […] browsing through it is pure joy.’

Reading rather than browsing is a *different* experience. The book has no running heads, either in the main text or in the 20 pages of endnotes.

So, even leaving aside my dislike of endnotes (especially when they mix discursion and citation), if one wants to consult an endnote, without running heads one is *lost*. One has to flip back through the pages of the text to find the chapter title, then flip through the endnotes to find the corresponding heading, and only then can one find the correct note.

(To be clear: none of my complaints here are about Andrews's scholarship or writing, only the book design.)

#typography #BookDesign #endnotes #rant

Looking at this lovely anonymous design for the 1893 ed. of Rip Van Winkle, with its poppies/sleepiness disrupted by the winds of change blowing among them, and the thistles! Photo: Simon Cooke. https://victorianweb.org/art/design/books/315.html #bookdesign

Today's reading: short stories by Doris Lessing

#books #reading #DorisLessing #ShortStories #BookCovers #BookDesign

Audio Interview: Design Rules That Make or Break a Book with Matty Dalrymple and Sam Pearce

In this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi Podcast, Matty Dalrymple talks with publishing strategist and book designer Sam Pearce about the invisible design rules that shape a reader’s experience. They explore how readability, typography,…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/podcast-design-rules/

#Podcast #bookdesign #genreconventions #interiorlayout #publishingstrategy

Staff pick:
“Readings of the Archive” is a book about Argentinian architect Amancio Williams (1913–1989) published by the Canadian Centre for #Architecture in partnership with Spector Books. Design studio Our Polite Society used two of their own typefaces: the monospaced OPS Favorite and the newly released OPS And Ever, a proportional update and continuation of the latter. Its Ultra weight that’s used on the cover is still unreleased.
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/73378/amancio-williams-readings-of-the-archive

#FontsInUse #typography #BookDesign

#typography Univers Condensed #bookdesign #design

Final few hours of the @kickstarter.com for my photobook Redd. Thanks to everyone who supported and shared! #redd #photobook #analogphotography #documentaryphotography #filmcommunity #ireland #bookdesign #independentpublishing #projectswelove #Kickstarter #photobook #analogphotography #filmphotography #TriX #duotone #flextight #printedmatter #ReddBook #documentaryphotography #irishphotography #waterways #artphotobook #communitysupportedart Preorder here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gaelicfields/redd-by-paul-carroll

Final few hours of the @kickstarter.com for my photobook Redd. Thanks to everyone who supported and shared! #redd #photobook #analogphotography #documentaryphotography #filmcommunity #ireland #bookdesign #independentpublishing #projectswelove #Kickstarter #photobook #analogphotography #filmphotography #TriX #duotone #flextight #printedmatter #ReddBook #documentaryphotography #irishphotography #waterways #artphotobook #communitysupportedart Preorder here www.kickstarter.com/projects/gae...

Understanding IngramSpark Title Processing

What happens if your book gets stuck in IngramSpark's title processing? In this article, we'll review file specifications and common file errors that will delay the process.
https://www.ingramspark.com/blog/understanding-ingramspark-title-processing

#BookDesign #IngramSpark #SelfPublishing #BookFormatting

Understanding IngramSpark Title Processing

What happens if your book gets stuck in IngramSpark's title processing? In this article, we'll review file specifications and common file errors that will delay the process.
https://www.ingramspark.com/blog/understanding-ingramspark-title-processing

#BookDesign #IngramSpark #SelfPublishing #BookFormatting

@appassionato Gorgeous cover!
Including #IconicFishes ...
#BookDesign @bookstodon

Angel DeCora; binding, title page, and initials; Wigwam Stories; 1901–1909

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we pay tribute to Angel DeCora, the multitalented graphic artist whose lettering filled the pages of books like this one in the early 1900s. More: https://letterformarchive.org/news/angel-decoras-lettering-in-the-indians-book/

The Archive is located on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples. Consider a Yunakin land tax: https://www.ramaytush.org/donate.html

#IndigenousPeoplesDay #AngelDeCora #Lettering #BookDesign #Typography #HoChunk