Digital Book Design & Publishing - Softcover

Holleley, Douglas

9780970713803: Digital Book Design & Publishing

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0970713800 ISBN 13: 9780970713803

Publisher: Clarellen, 2001

DIGITAL BOOK DESIGN AND PUBLISHING is profusely illustrated with photographs of exemplary artist’s books from the United States, Australia and Europe. Artists whose work is featured include... William Blake, Helen Brunner, Bill Burke, David Carson, John Crombie, John Diamond-Nigh, Johanna Drucker, Albrecht Durer, Carol Flax, Brad Freeman, Johann Gutenberg, Christian Ide, Warren Lehrer, Joan Lyons, Nathan Lyons, Peter Lyssiotis, Clifton Meador, Scott McCarney, Deborah Muirhead, Shinro Ohtake, Keith Smith, Laurie Snyder, Carl Sesto, Sonia Sheridan, Karen Wirth, John Wood, the Wayzgoose Press, Phillip Zimmermann and Janet Zweig. The book is 308 pages long, with 444 illustrations printed in full color. It is soft bound and Smythe sewn.

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From the Publisher:

This book will assist the reader who wishes to construct a book utilizing contemporary digital technology. Although it is primarily aimed at photographers, it will also be of use to artists, authors, historians, and others who have a collection of related material and would like to see it integrated into a single document. The primary means of assembling the book will be through the practical application of two pieces of software, Adobe Photoshop™ and QuarkXPress.™ No prior knowledge of either computer program is assumed nor does it exclude those who may be fluent in either or both. The book emphasizes the direct expression of abstract ideas in tangible form and thus content, rather than technique, is stressed at every opportunity.

From the Inside Flap:

Contrary to futurists’ predictions that computer culture would mark the demise of the book, electronic technologies, by changing the way books are produced and distributed, are creating a renaissance in book culture. At least as significant to print publishing as Gutenberg’s moveable type in its time, electronic, or desktop, publishing has brought the tools of book production to anyone who owns or has access to a personal computer. Add a scanner and printer, page layout and image processing programs and you have, at your desktop, a means to work with typography, images and page design undreamed of fifteen years ago.

This book covers all the essentials of digital bookmaking for photographers, artists, designers and for writers who want to move beyond the manuscript to the page. Based on his years of work as a photographer, bookmaker and teacher, Douglas Holleley has developed a clear and considered approach to "digital book design and publishing." You will find a progression through the process of bookmaking, from a consideration of maquette and materials through printing and bookbinding, as well as a step-by-step guide to page layout and image processing software. A rich and varied selection of reproductions from historical and contemporary illustrated books and artists’ books places digitally produced books in a historical continuum.

Joan Lyons Visual Studies Workshop Press

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