The Surface of Meaning is a history that works in the context of other recent studies in
book design. The invaluable bibliography thereby takes on an extra importance as a guide to the supporting documentation that extends and details other facets of the story.
In the first section, "Looking like books," Hendel gives an overview of
book design and discusses changes that have taken place over the past century.
One purpose for
book design elements is to make a work more aesthetically appealing.
In chapter 3, "On
book design and typographic style: books by Richard Hendel and Robert Bringhurst," Rafaeli compares the two writers and their books.
Notes on
Book Design. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
Prices for creative work such as
book design, illustration and editorial work can be 40% less in India than in the UK.
MapSet has built up a reputation for high-quality
book design for large-scale projects in environmental publishing.
After the Second World War, Charlie Thorson returned to Winnipeg to pursue his new interest in children's
book design. For this Canada and Canadians will be forever in his debt.
Everything from
book design to tapestries is covered, as are most of the main branches of the movement (there is even an excursion into the Aesthetic Movement and Christopher Dresser).
I swear I use no art at all; 10 years, 100 books, 18,788 pages of
book design, 2d ed.
A BOOK published by Northumbria University Press has been shortlisted for the national and prestigious British
Book Design and Production Awards 2008.
Oak Knoll Press, as the publishing arm is known, publishes and distributes an impressive range of books in the fields of bibliography, book collecting, the book trades, the history of the book, and the various aspects of the book arts: typography, printing, bookbinding,
book design, illustration, paper making, and calligraphy.