Appreciating the practice of book cover design. Faceout Books focuses on one book or series each week, delving into the challenges and outcome of the project.
Tag: books
Obama and the Wild Things
Barrack Obama reads Where the Wild Things Are. There are so many awesome things about this video, you can’t help but smile.
Changing publishing for the better
Six Projects That Could Change Publishing for the Better is Michael Tamblyn’s presentation from the BookNet TechForum outlining projects, changes and initiatives that could help change the industry. It’s forward thinking and funny to boot, definitely worth watching if you’re at all interested in the book industry.
Book design is invisible
Three video clips about the design process of a book. C.S. Richardson briefly explains the history of book design, interior layout and cover design. One of his most important points is that good book design is invisible.
The Wayfinding Handbook
A review of The Wayfinding Handbook. I’d like to see a copy before buying, but it looks like a good addition to the collection.
Bookkake
Bookkake, for those that love dirty books. Awesome name, and good idea for a small publishing venture.
Meta book covers
Books on book covers, an emerging meta-trend in cover design. Eventually, walking into a bookstore will become an Escher-esque event that blows your mind.
The Typographic Desk Reference
The Typographic Desk Reference. I’ll need to pick up a copy of this one.
Free Font Index
Last year, I was contacted by Hans Lijklema about including my fonts in an archive of free fonts. His Free Font Index landed on my doorstep a couple weeks ago. I just got around to posting some photos now, there are some better spread shots over at The Fell Types.
What fonts you say? About ten years ago, I went on a font making kick, mostly hand-drawn stuff, and crappy erasure remixes. Some of them were drawn by my buddy Brian Stuparyk. People still download and use these in various projects, you can grab them here. They’re pretty rough and raw, no kerning, no nothing… didn’t really know what I was doing at the time. I should probably revisited the fonts and clean them up a bit.
If you get the chance, you should check out the book. There’s some great work in there by talented type designers, who created much more usable typefaces. There are also some cool interviews.
How to publish without perishing
How to publish without perishing:
You won’t win on quick distribution, and you won’t win on price. Cyberspace has that covered.
Go back to an old-fashioned idea: that a book, printed in ink on durable paper, acid-free for longevity, is a thing of beauty. Make it as well as you can. People want to cherish it.
25th Estate
This is Where We Live — welcome to our city, to our world, of books. A charming video from the folks at 4th Estate Publishing.