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    Artworking and Typesetting

    Heather O'Connell

    Smart, scalable and responsible print production [Heather O’Connell interview]

    Heather O’Connell has more than 20 years experience in the publishing industry and worked her way up from controller to senior management positions at Penguin…

    norah myers January 29, 2018

    Judge a book by its cover … and its typesetting

    Of course the cover is important – you don’t need me to tell you that, but I think the internal pages of a book are…

    Nathan Ryder December 1, 2017

    A beginner’s guide to white space

    Most people involved in writing or publishing are aware of the phrase “white space” and realise that the visual impact of a text, whether on page or screen,…

    Gwyneth Box October 27, 2017

    A guide on book title punctuation

    For the trained eyes, there is nothing more annoying than looking at a book which is just one letter away from perfect. It is possible…

    Zsofia Macho October 23, 2017
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    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…

    Ken Jones October 4, 2017
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    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…

    Ken Jones September 26, 2017
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    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…

    emc design April 25, 2017

    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…

    Ken Jones April 24, 2017
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    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…

    Katie Dodson April 10, 2017

    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…

    Katie Dodson April 7, 2017

    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…

    Mathias Lord March 19, 2017
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    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…

    emc design February 23, 2017

    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…

    Nigel French December 5, 2016
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    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…

    Ken Jones August 15, 2016
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    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…

    Jana Sukenikova July 30, 2016
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