‘If you can’t make it big, make it red’: Book design branding basics
With all romantic flare attached to writing, from the marketing department’s point of view a book is a product that should recoup the publisher’s investment.…
Cover and internal design
Tips & Tricks: Improving legibility of text on images
One of the fundamental things you can do either as a designer, or someone creating your own materials, is to understand how to get the…
Tips for using Photoshop at work: Beate Allerton interview
Ahead of the upcoming training course Photoshop for publishers, BookMachine are running a series of interviews with industry professionals to understand how they use the…
Tips for using InDesign and Photoshop at work: Adam Brightman interview
Ahead of the upcoming training courses InDesign and Photoshop for publishers, BookMachine are running a series of interviews with industry professionals to understand how they…
Tips for using InDesign and Photoshop at work: Michael Goldrei interview
Ahead of the upcoming training courses InDesign and Photoshop for publishers, BookMachine are running a series of interviews with industry professionals to understand how they…
Tips for using InDesign and Photoshop at work: Vladimir Verano interview
Ahead of the upcoming training courses InDesign and Photoshop for publishers, BookMachine are running a series of interviews with industry professionals to understand how they…
Mind The Gap: Planning your InDesign pages using Margins and Columns
This is an excerpt from Nigel French’s book ‘InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign’. These principles apply to all versions of InDesign and any…
British Book Design and Production Awards Winners
The British Book Design and Production Awards were held on 10 November at the dazzling Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel in Knightsbridge, central London. Baroness Floella…
Marketing vs Design: Photo/Twitter blog
If you work in book marketing, your focus is on running campaigns to sell more books. If you are a designer you know that no…
Marketing vs Design: Mark Ecob interview
Mark Ecob is Creative Director of cover design company Mecob Design Ltd, Associate Art Director at Unbound, and is speaking at our next event: ‘Marketing vs…
Startup snapshot: Bookcoverpedia
Alexander von Ness is a book cover designer with over 20 years of professional experience in graphic design, including over a decade as Art Director…
Interview with expert book cover designer Tamian Wood
This is a guest interview with Tamian Wood. “Whether you are a self published author, or a New York Times best selling author, your book…
Origins of the interactive book
Digital formats provide a wealth of opportunity to experiment with, and push the boundaries of, the traditional book. With much focus on what this can do…
Typographic trends: Discover which fonts creatives love, and hate…
“I love fonts!” We hear it all the time. It’s common for creative professionals to obsess over their tools, and fonts are critical to any…
4 steps for building an author brand
This is a guest post from Ricardo Fayet. Ricardo is an avid reader and startup enthusiast who has been studying the publishing industry with interest…
