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…
Book Production & Operations
Discover emerging tools and services for book publishers and hear from leading Production and Operations Directors about what works for them.
Essential Training Courses from £50
After launching the Indesign and Photoshop courses last month, our inbox has been pinging with people asking us to make them more in-depth and more…
Next week on BookMachine: your out-of-house workforce
Heads-up publishing people! Next week we have two insightful things happening for anyone who is tasked with managing, inspiring and evaluating their out-of-house workforce. The…
Best practices for managing font collections
Design and publishing professionals juggle documents all day long. Ensuring that each and every document opens quickly and renders properly is critical to getting the…
Remote control: Collaboration and proofing tools for design teams
For many of the book publishers I work with the use of freelancers is an integral part of their workflow. Some companies offer their internal…
Learn new publishing skills with BookMachine in 2017
After the huge success of Coding for publishers: half-day taster course (with Bibliocloud), BookMachine is back with more training for publishing professionals. Publishing software expert…
Trouble keeping your team’s fonts in sync?
You’re not alone. You can learn how to effectively distribute fonts with a font server. Font issues can crop up in any workflow. Font problems…
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…
Ten things we learnt at the InDesign Conference
The InDesign Conference 2016 took place last week in Washington D.C. A three day conference for over 450 InDesign users, experts, consultants, speakers and trainers.…
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…
A day in the life of a Director of Publishing Operations
James Carey is Director of Publishing Operations, UK for The Quarto Group. Having worked in Production, Sales and Operations roles at Dorling Kindersley, Penguin and…
The X factor. Adding the X to PDF/X
We all know PDFs. Here we are over a decade and a half into the 21st century and chances are you have probably already read…
How to share advance copies of ebooks to those without a suitable device
I was talking to a customer about their ebook publishing programme last week and heard that they are looking for a simple way to send…
10 lessons from BIC’s New Trends in Publishing Seminar
Attending an event on ‘new trends’ seems apt at this time, just as everyone is ramping up on their Frankfurt preparation. We took away much…
Metadata expert insights: Jane Rowland
Jane Rowland is the Operations Director of Troubador Publishing. Jane has worked in a variety of roles within the company, including Director of Academic Publishing,…
