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  2. Book design - Wikipedia

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    Book design. Design by Hans Holbein the Younger for a metalwork book cover (or treasure binding) Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components and elements of a book into a coherent unit. In the words of renowned typographer Jan Tschichold (1902–1974), book design, "though ...

  3. Cover art - Wikipedia

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    The book cover design is usually designed by a graphic designer or book designer, working in-house at a publisher or freelance. Once the front cover art has been approved, they will then continue to design the layout of the spine (including the book title, author name and publisher imprint logo) and the back cover (usually including a book ...

  4. Book cover - Wikipedia

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    Book cover. Front cover of the St Cuthbert Gospel, c. 700; the original tooled red goatskin binding is the earliest surviving Western binding. A book cover is any protective covering used to bind together the pages of a book. Beyond the familiar distinction between hardcovers and paperbacks, there are further alternatives and additions, such as ...

  5. Chip Kidd - Wikipedia

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    Throughout his career, Kidd has been a graphic designer, book designer, editor, author, lecturer and musician. According to Graphic Design: American Two, he has been credited with “helping to spawn a revolution in the art of America book packaging in the last ten years.” [3] One of the most consistent characteristics of Kidd's style is the fact that his book covers don't carry one ...

  6. Book size - Wikipedia

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    The size and proportions of a book depend on the size of the original full sheet. If a sheet 480 by 640 mm (19 by 25 in) is used to print a quarto, the resulting untrimmed pages, will be approximately half as large in each dimension: width 240 mm ( 9⁄ in) and height 320 mm ( 12⁄ in). An octavo page, oriented a quarter turn from the full ...

  7. John Gall (designer) - Wikipedia

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    John Gall (born 1963 in New Jersey ), is an American graphic designer known primarily for the design of book covers. He is a graduate of Rutgers University. [1] Gall is currently the creative director of Alfred A. Knopf. He was formerly creative director of Abrams Books, and prior to that, vice president and art director for Vintage Books and ...

  8. Canons of page construction - Wikipedia

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    The Van de Graaf canon is a historical reconstruction of a method that may have been used in book design to divide a page in pleasing proportions. [ 5] This canon is also known as the "secret canon" used in many medieval manuscripts and incunabula . The geometrical solution of the construction of Van de Graaf's canon, which works for any page ...

  9. Category:Book design - Wikipedia

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    Page layout‎ (1 C, 20 P) Pages in category "Book design" The following 89 pages are in this category, out of 89 total. ... Picture cover; Postface; Postscript;

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