WEEK 5: From PrintING to digtal media

In class:

Review Book Jacket Cover. For people who have interior illustrations/images, we can meet in a smaller group to review your work once the book jacket covers have been reviewed.

Final review for those who would like it: Chapter Opening, Chapter Spread, Front Matter.

BREAK

Book signatures, imposition and printing. Printing your book signatures.

 

Homework: final refinements, printing/Publishing

Final refinements to your book.

Make the final refinements for the look of your book. Layout the remaining 32 pages of your book with proper styles in place. Then create/finish your Table of Contents page. Refine your Book Jacket Cover.

For next week's class, please drop one .ZIP file into my drop folder with the following items:

1. Your book text as a Word .rtf file
2. Package your Indesign files for your Book Jacket Cover (fonts, links/images, native files)
3. Pacakage your book's interior pages: Front Matter and Body (fonts, links/images, Indesign files)
4. PDF files for your Book Jacket Cover and your book's interior pages

Also please print and hand in two 16-page signatures (for 32 pages total), trimmed and collated. (16 pages=4 sheets of paper). Print your book jacket covers.

 

Click on these links:

Required
How to print your book signatures (pdf file)




 

 




 

 

 

Resources

 

RESOURCES

Structure of the physical book (pdf)

General sections of a book (pdf)

Chapter opening and text spread (pdf)

Specs for print (pdf)

Feedback guidelines for your Chapter Openings & Chapter Spread (pdf)

 

Type Classifications: Review (pdf)

Choosing Typefaces: Review (pdf)

Choosing Typefaces: Samples (pdf)

19 Top Font Combinations (pdf)

 

Possible pages within the front matter (pdf)

Layout order within the front matter (pdf)

Layout for title page & half title page (pdf)

Layout requirements for the imprint page (pdf)

Review of Chapter Opening: Position of Epigraphs & Subheads (pdf)

Feedback guidelines for your Front Matter (pdf)

 

Indesign keyboard shortcuts (pdf)

34 Typographic Sins (pdf)

 

Possible pages within the back matter (pdf)

Layout order within the back matter (pdf)

Layout requirements for book jacket (pdf)

Sample barcode (ai)

 

General cover image requirements (pdf)

iBookstore Asset Guide 4.8 (pdf file)

 

How to print your book signatures (pdf file)

 

SITES OF INTEREST

Specs for eBook Readers

Specs for iPad

 

Traditional Page Layout: Golden Section

 

29 Principles for making great font combinations

Type Connection Game

Top Ten Typefaces Used by Book Design Winners

Four Techniques for Combining Fonts

Best Practices of Combining Typefaces

Pairing Typefaces in Book Design

CounterSpace type timeline

Periodic type table

 

Sample TOCs for print books

ePub Zen Garden

 

Book cover archive

AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers

The Pelican Project

Book cover anonymous

Chip Kidd

Helen Yentus

 

Cover image size requirements: Smashwords

Sample ePub 3 files (AZARDI)

International Digital Publishing Forum

iTunes Connect

Comparing the iPad models: iPad 2 vs the new iPad