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
Structure of the physical book (pdf)
General sections of a book (pdf)
Chapter opening and text spread (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
Traditional Page Layout: Golden Section
29 Principles for making great font combinations
Top Ten Typefaces Used by Book Design Winners
Four Techniques for Combining Fonts
Best Practices of Combining Typefaces
Pairing Typefaces in Book Design
Cover image size requirements: Smashwords
International Digital Publishing Forum
Comparing the iPad models: iPad 2 vs the new iPad