Book designers attend to an astonishing number of typesetting details when laying out a book. Below are the most basic typesetting and book layout issues, so that you’ll understand how to typeset a book and know what to look for. Once you understand these issues, you...
1106 Design is pleased to announce that it is now a recommended resource for IngramSpark, the company that provides “Big House Publishing for Indie Publishers,” and has been “digitally certified” by IngramSpark as being a book design company that formats books to...
Recently I was asked: “What is the best way for a self-published author to create a book cover for under $500?” Everyone knows the saying “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” Everyone also knows that’s exactly what happens. You don’t want a cheap-looking cover, and...
Famous for more than a few pithy quotes, as well as great stories, Mark Twain once said, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble, it’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” I was reminded of this quote the...
With the availability of text processing tools now available to everyone, book design has become a misunderstood craft. It’s not uncommon for book designers to receive a request to “convert my Word file into a PDF for the printer.” While there are...
Could anyone have predicted, even ten years ago, that the bulk of our work and social lives would be managed through electronic devices, some small enough to fit in the palm of our hand? I know I couldn’t. As with all advances, we’re presented with...
