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Notes on Book Design

By Derek Birdsall

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| Hardcover | 9780300103472

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In a career spanning more than forty years, Derek Birdsall has achieved renown as a leading book designer in Britain. This practical and inspirational book distils a lifetime’s professional experience. It presents and discusses nearly fifty books he has designed, showing 360 spreads and coversContinue

In a career spanning more than forty years, Derek Birdsall has achieved renown as a leading book designer in Britain. This practical and inspirational book distils a lifetime’s professional experience. It presents and discusses nearly fifty books he has designed, showing 360 spreads and covers, all in full color and to scale.
The designs range from Penguin paperback covers in the 1960s to a recent complete redesign of The Church of England’s book of Common Worship. Among Birdsall’s projects are award-winning art catalogues, catalogues raisonné on such major artists as Mark Rothko and Georgia O’Keeffe, and books on wine, chess, astronomy, architecture, and fine paper. Birdsall discusses and illustrates the process of book design, from brief to deadline (which he calls the designer’s muse). He includes specimen settings of his favorite text faces as well as an innovative metric grid system for designing books. In addition, he lists books he himself has found useful or inspiring. For every reader curious about the design or production of books, this is a uniquely informative and instructive book.

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    Notes on Book Design by Derek Birdsall 248pp, Yale, £30 Publishers' insistence on camera-ready copy, now that computer programs have put book design into the hands of anyone with the money, have resulted in a host of very ugly books. But as Derek Bir ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 248 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 0300103476
  • ISBN-13: 9780300103472
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Pub date: Jul 11, 2004
  • Dimensions: 1935 mm x 1613 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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