ForewordForeword is a weblog community in the service of book design, books, art, photography, and design. Sponsored by ospreydesign.RSS Feed Renamed; Atom Feed Added- March 31, 2006 Many apologies to our RSS readers, but I&8217;m changing the address of our RSS feed. It&8217;s now named rss.xml instead of just index.xml to better differentiate it from our new Atom feed. Please update your bookmarks with the feed of your choice &8212; and please let me know of any problems or requests. Also flat-out removed the icons from the sidebar &8212; somewhere I hear applause &8212; and redid the way entries list comments to hopefully make it easier to use. As always, feedback...http://www.ospreydesign.com/foreword/archives/001918.html Creative Style- March 31, 2006 The always-interesting (and astonishingly prolific) Steven Heller teams with Seymour Chwast for 2001&8217;s new edition of Graphic Style, a cover that has worn very well: Currently on sale at Labyrinth for $11. A nice (and long-overdue) addition to the bookcases. Big thumbs up to my mother for bumping into and getting this. Sweet Mom.http://www.ospreydesign.com/foreword/archives/001917.html Cartoon Modern: Final Cover- March 28, 2006 Todd wrote tonight, asking: My memory fails me, didn&8217;t you blog about this a while back &8230;It would be worth posting an update, the cover is looking great. Yes, I did &8212; and couldn&8217;t agree more, it is looking great: There are a great many comments at the introduction page, but let me add a few: I like the font choices, love the subtitle and author treatment on the front, like the little details like the handling of the bar code and publisher logo on the full version, and...http://www.ospreydesign.com/foreword/archives/001916.html CS3: 2Q 2007- March 28, 2006 Rob Galbraith notes a Forbes interview with Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen. The money section: Acrobat is coming in the fourth quarter of 2006. Design software package Creative Suite 3 will be introduced in the second quarter of 2007. Acrobat will take advantage of the Macromedia assets. And you&8217;ll see a lot of activity in the CS3 launch. There will be a lot of integration between Macromedia products and Adobe products as part of those offerings. As Rob comments, Universal Binary (read:...http://www.ospreydesign.com/foreword/archives/001915.html Software Update- March 27, 2006 FontExplorer X &8230;doesn&8217;t work for me. It shows maybe a tenth of the previews, won&8217;t move the files, won&8217;t organize them, and won&8217;t auto-activate them in the various applications (probably because it thinks they&8217;re not complete, hence the lack of previews.) The venerable Suitcase X1 also has one big advantage: huge preview area, small font list. FontExplorer gets it backwards, devoting more space to the font list. In FE&8217;s defence, it can be a WYSIWYG menu,...http://www.ospreydesign.com/foreword/archives/001914.html 'Nuther Good Question- March 24, 2006 Posted because, uh &8230; I don&8217;t know, and absolutely should: When trade paperbacks have folded covers to immitate the slip cover of a hardback, what is that called Overleaf I want to design a book with these cover elements, and want to describe it properly to the printer. I&8217;ve only done one &8212; Florida&8217;s Birds &8212; and just referred to it as a &8220;flapped paperback.&8221; (No flapping bird book comments, please&8230;;) Checked a couple of sources but didn&8217;t see...http://www.ospreydesign.com/foreword/archives/001913.html Reasons I Love Flickr Tonight- March 24, 2006 Some of the sheer artistry: No idea whatwhere this is. Doesn&8217;t really matter; I&8217;d love to use it on a book cover. Found because someone with the nickname Daydream Scream tagged a photo of mine as a favorite. There&8217;s no way I&8217;m not going to follow up on a name like that &8212; and found this. Sweet Flickr.http://www.ospreydesign.com/foreword/archives/001912.html Anybody in Vancouver- March 23, 2006 Here&8217;s an event if you are: Glenn Goluska trains three decades of experience on his upcoming lecture Lead, Wood, and Laser: 30 Years of the Book, Design & Typography. Cosponsored by the Alcuin Society and host venue the Vancouver Museum, this 7 p.m. event next Thursday (March 30) should touch on Goluskas stints at groundbreaking Toronto publisher Coach House Press, at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, where he designed exhibition catalogues and posters, and at Imprimerie...http://www.ospreydesign.com/foreword/archives/001911.html Posted for Comment- March 22, 2006 Dan writes: Ive attached a couple of covers Im working on for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, if youd like to post one or both for comment. The photos are pretty much set at this point, but Im still refining the typography. Would love to know what people think. Thanks! I&8217;ll take both, thank you: and: I like the photo choices, and generally agree that it&8217;s down to typography. More in the comments &8212; please join in.http://www.ospreydesign.com/foreword/archives/001910.html Question of the Month- March 22, 2006 &8230;award definitely belongs to Guy Kelly: I&8217;m an occasional commenter, and I had a question I wanted to put before some fellow book designers. I&8217;m fairly new to book design, and the type of books I design use lots of lists in the body copy (numbered and bulleted). I got into the habit of indenting those lists (where the bullet was flush with the left edge of the page, and the text was indented a pica or so), and I am now trying to correct myself. The odd thing is that most...http://www.ospreydesign.com/foreword/archives/001909.html |