A Book Designer's Notebook
Nathaniel RoyNotes on book design and creative practice for writers, designers, and book lovers.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 109 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 11 days ago |
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Cover Design from Hardcover to Paperback (with an Italian Twist)
If and when a book transitions from hardcover to paperback, its cover is subject to change. Sometimes the change is slight—The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead comes to mind—and other times the change is more complete.
There are a variety o...
What You Wish You Knew at 32
A Book Designer's Notebook is a newsletter about book design and creative practice from the desk of Nathaniel Roy.
Here are some things I thought worth sharing this week.
Get your work out of the sketchbook!
shows us how...
A Cover Credit Conundrum
Hey folks,
I don’t have any capital W writing in the can, so I’m stealing ’s format this week. Here are ten things I thought were worth sharing.
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Tools of My Trade
Perhaps this goes without saying, but every designer’s process is different. In my experience, the often loosely-defined “process” is an amalgamation tools, habits, and sensibilities.
If you’ve been reading for a little while, I think you...
Fifteen Facts about Fonts
In 2027, Futura will be 100 years old. It was designed by Paul Renner.
Check out this wonderful walkthrough of the typeface by the good folks at Letterform Archive—Futura: A Typeface for Our Time
Mrs Eaves, a modern Baskerville interp...
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Book designer, collage maker, photo taker, and a few other things in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
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