Notes on book design /

Title:

Notes on book design /

Author:

Birdsall, Derek.

Published:

New Haven [Conn.] ; London : c2004.

Format:

Book

Institution:

Lesley Moriarty, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Emerson College

Contents:

I. The process of book design -- Formats -- Covers -- Jackets, spines & flaps -- Flatplans -- 4 x 1 schemes -- Maps & keys -- Section breaks & drop lines -- Selecting a detail -- Matching millimetre depths -- Gate-folds -- Proportional representation -- Picture grids -- II. Book design in practice -- 1. Covers for Penguin books -- 2. Art direction -- 3. Science & technology -- 4. Art & artefacts -- 5. Islam & the near East -- 6. Painting & catalogues raisonnes -- 7. Drawings & sculpture -- 8. Landscape & architecture -- 9. Photography -- 10. Liturgy -- Work in progress -- On choosing a typeface -- Different leading & effect on 'colour' -- Text in translation -- Designing a grid -- A millimetre 'quad' grid system.

Online access:

No online access

Library holdings:

Emerson Main Stacks
Z116.A3 B57 2004 – Available

Lesley-Moriarty Library Stacks
Z116.A3 B57 2004 – Available

Wentworth Stacks--Upper Level
741.64 .B57 2004 – Available