Ladies, gentlemen and Nicola Morgan, following the success of the Kerning Game I now bring you… Shape Type! I find it far more interesting to create extraordinary new typefaces (ha!) and so instead of getting very high scores on this game, I’m getting quite extraordinarily low ones. I am obviously a trend-setter. Or incompetent. Or…
Tag Archive: design
A Beautiful Blog About Jacket Design
Here’s a treat: Caustic Cover Critic, a blog full of pictures of beautiful book jackets alongside articles which discuss how the designs were created, interviews with notable designers, and all sorts of other glorious stuff. I particularly like the photographs in this piece which show the construction of the jacket design for Puffin By Design,…
Trios: Diary Of An On-Call Girl, by E E Bloggs: Cover Story
Here’s the latest installment in the Trios series about Diary of an On-Call Girl: True Stories from the Front Line, the memoirs of an anonymous police officer, P. C. Bloggs. Following on from his discussion of TV options and rights sales, today Dan Collins (Bloggs’ publisher at Monday Books) examines the importance of good title…
Guest Post: How Book Design Affects Readability
A couple of weeks ago I was talking on the phone with Maggie Dana (who comments here regularly as Mags), and she mentioned to me that as well as being a writer, she works as a book designer and typesetter. We talked about how good typesetting not only makes books so much more readable, but…