The storyboard is where a picture book is actually written
Firsttime picture book authors think illustration means sending a manuscript and receiving pictures. The stage in between is where the book gets…
Design & Production
How books actually get made: cover design decisions, typesetting craft, colour management, paper stock and the production choices that show up in the finished object.
4 articles in Design & Production
Typesetting poetry: the line break is the poem
In poetry, visual arrangement is not presentation. It is content and a careless template silently rewrites the work.
Why you cannot approve a photography book from a screen
Screens emit light and paper reflects it. That single difference is why every illustrated book needs a physical proof before anything is…
The thumbnail test: judging a cover the way readers actually see it
Authors approve covers at full size on a large screen. Readers meet them at 120 pixels in a scrolling grid. Only one…
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