Why good book design matters:
Attractive book design is crucial to drawing readers. A book should not only be visually striking—its look also needs to fit within its specific genre. There are many aspects to marketing a new title, but perhaps the single most effective marketing tool—even with ebooks—remains the book’s cover.
dba Gregory Smith Graphic Design / G. B. D. Smith since 1984
San Diego, California
I've designed texts and covers for hundreds of books in a range of genres: education (test prep, college, academic), trade non-fiction and fiction, poetry, children’s books, self-help titles, etc. I’ve worked with many talented people, bringing interesting items into projects: Ronald Reagan’s handwritten speech cards, crime scene tire tracks, infrared Hubble images, stereoscopic views of Cro-Magnon skulls, Andy Warhol’s birth certificate, a Poet Laureate’s scrawls . . .
Here are some book-related websites worth looking at.
On the history of making books: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/codex http://www.cbbag.ca/BookArtsWeb/TheBook.html
On the 8th-century “Book of Kells”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Kells
Gregory Smith Book Design
phone & fax: 619-298-7536
