Download PDF Notes on Book Design, by Derek Birdsall
The visibility of the on the internet book or soft documents of the Notes On Book Design, By Derek Birdsall will certainly ease individuals to get guide. It will certainly additionally save even more time to only search the title or author or author to get up until your publication Notes On Book Design, By Derek Birdsall is exposed. After that, you could visit the web link download to visit that is supplied by this site. So, this will certainly be an excellent time to begin appreciating this publication Notes On Book Design, By Derek Birdsall to review. Consistently great time with book Notes On Book Design, By Derek Birdsall, always good time with cash to spend!
Notes on Book Design, by Derek Birdsall
Download PDF Notes on Book Design, by Derek Birdsall
Notes On Book Design, By Derek Birdsall. Happy reading! This is exactly what we want to say to you that enjoy reading a lot. Just what about you that assert that reading are only commitment? Never mind, reviewing habit should be begun from some particular factors. One of them is checking out by obligation. As just what we want to supply here, guide qualified Notes On Book Design, By Derek Birdsall is not type of required e-book. You could enjoy this publication Notes On Book Design, By Derek Birdsall to review.
Postures now this Notes On Book Design, By Derek Birdsall as one of your book collection! However, it is not in your bookcase compilations. Why? This is guide Notes On Book Design, By Derek Birdsall that is provided in soft data. You can download and install the soft documents of this spectacular book Notes On Book Design, By Derek Birdsall currently and in the link supplied. Yeah, different with the other people who try to find book Notes On Book Design, By Derek Birdsall outside, you could get simpler to pose this book. When some individuals still walk right into the store as well as search guide Notes On Book Design, By Derek Birdsall, you are here only stay on your seat and also get guide Notes On Book Design, By Derek Birdsall.
While the other people in the store, they are uncertain to find this Notes On Book Design, By Derek Birdsall straight. It may need even more times to go establishment by establishment. This is why we intend you this website. We will certainly supply the very best method and also recommendation to get guide Notes On Book Design, By Derek Birdsall Even this is soft file book, it will be ease to bring Notes On Book Design, By Derek Birdsall anywhere or save in your home. The distinction is that you might not need move guide Notes On Book Design, By Derek Birdsall location to place. You may require just copy to the other devices.
Currently, reading this magnificent Notes On Book Design, By Derek Birdsall will be easier unless you obtain download the soft documents here. Just here! By clicking the link to download Notes On Book Design, By Derek Birdsall, you can start to obtain guide for your personal. Be the first owner of this soft file book Notes On Book Design, By Derek Birdsall Make difference for the others and also get the first to advance for Notes On Book Design, By Derek Birdsall Present moment!
In a career spanning more than forty years, Derek Birdsall has achieved renown as a leading book designer in Britain. This practical and inspirational book distils a lifetime’s professional experience. It presents and discusses nearly fifty books he has designed, showing 360 spreads and covers, all in full color and to scale.
The designs range from Penguin paperback covers in the 1960s to a recent complete redesign of The Church of England’s book of Common Worship. Among Birdsall’s projects are award-winning art catalogues, catalogues raisonn� on such major artists as Mark Rothko and Georgia O’Keeffe, and books on wine, chess, astronomy, architecture, and fine paper. Birdsall discusses and illustrates the process of book design, from brief to deadline (which he calls the designer’s muse). He includes specimen settings of his favorite text faces as well as an innovative metric grid system for designing books. In addition, he lists books he himself has found useful or inspiring. For every reader curious about the design or production of books, this is a uniquely informative and instructive book.
- Sales Rank: #1916594 in Books
- Published on: 2004-07-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.13" h x 10.00" w x 11.98" l, 3.67 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 248 pages
Review
“Inspirational and revealing. . . . Birdsall comes across not only as a brilliant craftsman but also a gifted teacher. . . . A vital book for students of book design and typography and an extremely readable journey through Birdsall’s career.”—Mark Sinclair, Creative Review
“Stunning. . . . It is rare to find a useful design manual or such an essential designers monograph, but to find both things under the same cover makes this book a must.”—Robert Fawcett-Tang, Grafik
About the Author
Derek Birdsall was consultant art director of the first Independent Magazine and has been a consultant designer to Pirelli, Mobil Corporation, HRH The Prince of Wales School of Architecture, and The Church of England.
Most helpful customer reviews
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Elegant, interesting, but ultimately not useful
By REReader
This author is an experienced, expert book designer, who has designed numerous art books and art catalogues (among many others). But somehow he seems to have missed some important points vital to good book design.
For instance, he is undoubtedly really, really good at choosing fonts that accurately reflect the content and tone of the books he is designing. However, he had somehow missed the point that the font chosen for the body of the book has to be both legible and readable. Quite often, the fonts he chooses are not at all readable. That includes the font used for this book (a typewriter font). Now, a typewriter font is undeniably appropriate to a book titled "Notes on..." anything, but the total lack of weight variation in the letters and the small size of the type made it very hard to read. And (just one more example) using Gill Sans for books about modern artists is undeniably appropriate, but reading a book with the body text set in san serif is like trying to read a book length caption--exhausting.
Then there is the placement of artwork across spreads. As the spreads are shown in this book--as they appear on boards or in a page layout program--they look fabulous. But once these books are bound, anything within 3/8" (roughly) of the gutter just disappear into the binding. Open a book. Look at where the paper disappears into the binding. Imagine important parts of a painting printed on the page going down into the binding. Imagine how you'd feel if you had bought a book to look at that art.
On the other hand, he did offer some interesting insight into how to place art in books without losing sight of relative size of the originals. It is a beautiful (if not readable) volume, and the examples are elegantly rendered. I don't think it's worth the price, however.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Unfortunately Useless
By mungo181
As anyone who makes a living designing books can tell you, most books are not $200 art books. But that's what Derek Birdsall seems to concentrate on in his "Notes on Book Design." Really, it's a no-brainer to make the art as large as possible and have the specs in a sans serif font. I don't need endless examples showing me exactly that. I'd like to see what Birdsall does with 30,000 words that the publisher insists page out to 272 pages in a 6 x 9 size, but "not look too horsey or airy." I bet he'd quit.
Addditionally, his choice of a typewriter font for the text make the book useless to the reader. Birdsall insists his publisher could not choose a better font--I doubt that. I got one for ya, Birdsall--Garamond. You should try it some time!
Ultimately, the tome serves neither the page designs shown as illustrations (too small in most cases) nor the reader. Perhaps a design student may get something out of this, but there must be better books out there on the same subject.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Simplicity + Clarity = Elegance
By Robin
Just lift the cover to this lovely book and the endpaper has a quote from George Orwell's 1946 book 'Politics and the English Language'
What am I trying to say?
What words will express it?
What image or idiom will make it clearer?
Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?
Could I have put it more shortly?
Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly?
Although he was referring to writing I feel these thoughts could easily apply to publication designers and Derek Birdsall's book is a fine visual example of putting them into practice.
I thought the clever thing about the book was the way it explains design by using examples of Birdsall's work, so you get to see plenty of his spreads and their presentation is the design explanation. The two chapters, 'The process of book design' and 'Book design in practice' covers a whole range of creative solutions. Throughout he offers thoughts and practical observations with the second chapter devoted to many spreads from books and here I found perhaps the most fascinating section, his re-design of 'Common Worship, Services and Prayers for the Church of England'. Surely the ultimate creative (and intellectual) challenge, 860 pages, type only and two colors. As a publication designer I've always maintained that the most rewarding jobs are the simplest in appearance, airline timetables or tax forms for instance, where the creative resources are limited yet the information conveyed needs to be totally unambiguous. Birdsall's design solution to 'Common Worship' looks so right that you are not aware of the design and that is just as it should be. The back of the book has sample text settings (in foreign languages, too) and some very hands-on information about grids for books.
'Notes on book' design is beautifully produced and printed and a first-class review of a leading book designer's work. I think it looks so good I've added it to my Listmania, 'My favorite well-designed books' list.
***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.
Notes on Book Design, by Derek Birdsall PDF
Notes on Book Design, by Derek Birdsall EPub
Notes on Book Design, by Derek Birdsall Doc
Notes on Book Design, by Derek Birdsall iBooks
Notes on Book Design, by Derek Birdsall rtf
Notes on Book Design, by Derek Birdsall Mobipocket
Notes on Book Design, by Derek Birdsall Kindle
![[(Green Computing: Tools and Techniques for Saving Energy, Money, and Resources )] [Author: Bud E. Smith] [Jul-2013], by Bud E. Smith](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vaxuGYI3lN69llrYBNAag4FRaZDnal4-4p1-qtvna_KY9olxvZZxGMg42bEMMYfbWAwvK1h6ONSRdIGeSRZH_FomZ5NlKPFBbF7ol04kssqxSZ9HHoELw=s0-d "[(Green Computing: Tools and Techniques for Saving Energy, Money, and Resources )] [Author: Bud E. Smith] [Jul-2013], by Bud E. Smith")
![[(Green Computing: Tools and Techniques for Saving Energy, Money, and Resources )] [Author: Bud E. Smith] [Jul-2013], by Bud E. Smith](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_s4si96auPSuXSEndmzyBtgt9R0nYS3PmajzBzdcHyTSIdRl-QfNVEM9NQ_hbTd7S1ZGeRVoTGNfYiBzrqPXDxvnaZUIA=s0-d "[(Green Computing: Tools and Techniques for Saving Energy, Money, and Resources )] [Author: Bud E. Smith] [Jul-2013], by Bud E. Smith")
