Overprints, Knockouts and a hangover headache
Sometimes the print production software we use doesn’t make it easy. Take ‘overprinting’ for example. Understanding overprinting can be vital for some print runs…
Artworking and Typesetting
A whiter shade of paper
How do you print white? In some complex cases a white ink is used on top of a foil or acetate but on the vast…
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…
Wear out your command key: Ten tips on using Photoshop and InDesign like the pros
Understanding Indesign Foundation Course – with Ken Jones 1st May 2019 | Digital Greenwich, London Sign up Learning how to use your Adobe software quickly…
InDesign for publishers: Annette Peppis 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 use the tools at…
Photoshop and InDesign for publishers: Subha Chelvam-Lewis 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 use the tools at…
Book design for self-publishing authors
What is book design like when you choose to self-publish your work? Mathias Lord of Hewer Text fills us in. Book design is something readers…
Typographic inspiration from Myfonts.com
As a design agency always looking for new ways of being creative and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible within editorial design we’re constantly looking outside of…
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…
Text Black, what it is and why you should no longer be using it
Being Upfront As every good production controller knows the cost of a print run is upfront. For illustrated books in particular, a major investment of time…
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…
Startup snapshot: Exact Editions
Having spent the past decade turning complex consumer magazines into their precise digital doppelgangers, Exact Editions launched their new digital books service in May. Here we…
Learning from Snapshots III: 8 typesetting tips for beginners
BookMachine have been busy with the next blook in the Snapshots series, Snapshots III, BookMachine on Publishing: The Next 5 Years. For the third year in a…
10 tips for better book designs
This is a guest post from Thomas Bohm. Thomas studied graphic communication, and now works for book publishers and businesses, whilst running User Design, Illustration…