Grayson Perry will design a collector’s edition tote bag for this year’s Books Are My Bag (BAMB) campaign. The Turner Prize-winning British artist’s design will be revealed at the BAMB launch on 8th October, which is also “Super Thursday”, the day on which a large number of publishers’ key titles are published ahead of the Christmas period. The nationwide programme of in-store events, Big Bookshop Parties, returns on 10th October. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers have long treated the digital and print parts of their designs as separate animals. But as their digital audiences start to outstrip their dwindling print subscribers, they're coming up with new ways of infusing print design and editorial sensibilities into their digital operations.... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Floris Books has shortlisted 12 cover designs for this year’s Kelpies Design & Illustration prize. For this year’s award, the Edinburgh-based publisher asked entrants to create a new front cover for The Hill of the Red Fox, an adventure story by Allan Campbell McLean, first published in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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From drugs to the women's movement, Californian counterculture has generated some of the most vibrant pieces of American graphic design.From Deborah Sussman's candy-colored "supergraphics" to R. Crumb's drug-fueled comics and album art, some of the most vibrant pieces of American graphic design... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2015-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two words: talent grab.You may not recognize the Toronto-based design firm Teehan+Lax, but you probably know some of the hit products it's behind, like the social publishing platform Medium and the reading app Readability. Now, the firm is closing, as Facebook—in a play for total publishing... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2015-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Serpent’s Tail has acquired a second book from Sarah Perry, whose debut was longlisted for the Guardian First Book of the Year Award 2014. Hannah Westland, publisher at Serpent’s Tail bought UK and commonwealth rights in Perry’s second novel, The Essex Serpent, from Jenny Hewson at Rogers,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Thames and Hudson title about medical illustration has been crowned Book of the Year at this year’s British Book Design and Production Awards. Richard Barnett’s The Sick Rose won the top honour, as well as being named winner in the Exhibition Catalogues category. Phaidon Press also received... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With The Pages Project, a designer of early ebooks revels in the inky, intimate musings from the margins of used books.Erik Schmitt's obsession with marginalia—handwritten scribbles or notes in the margins of books—began after he inherited a chunk of his grandfather's library. Handwritten in the... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton has signed a two-year deal for exclusive publishing rights for "The Great British Bake Off" programme with producer Love Productions. The GBBO branded books, including The Big Book of Baking by Linda Collister and Christmas by Lizzie Kamenetzy, have previously been... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette's Grand Central Life & Style imprint has signed up a design book by Ellen DeGeneres. 'Home' is set for fall 2015, preceding the launch of DeGeneres' lifestyle brand, E.D., in spring 2015. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Students at MIT, Stanford, and elsewhere are learning to build technology products with user well-being in mind.Facebook sparked outrage this summer when it published results of a study conducted on unwitting users. The study looked at whether people who were shown more positive or negative... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2014-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomberg may be building its digital footprint, but it's still taking some design cues from print. The post Should publishers take Web design cues from print? appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2014-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Celebrities and authors including Graham Norton and Ross Kemp have thrown their weight behind the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Strategies include everything from setting timers to taking nature walks to listening to black metal.Since April, Samara, Russia-based designer Yevgeny Yermakov has been asking designers a series of five questions--about work habits, favorite books, career challenges, and creativity--and... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2014-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oxford University Press is publishing a range of titles this autumn to tie-in with "The... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chatto & Windus has won an eight-publisher auction for a book which will give readers “... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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James Patterson has lent his support to the Books Are My Bag campaign, with a new bag for... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A monograph published by Dorset-based publisher Little Toller Books has scooped a coveted BBC... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The newer, flatter design puts Kindle, Fire, and Prime categories front and center.Amazon has unveiled a new homepage design to select users, placing a new emphasis on the retail giant's biggest brands: the Kindle ebook platform, its Fire lineup of tablets and smartphones, and the Prime... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2014-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Self-published author Richard Veitch has been signed by Joanna Swainson at Hardman and Swainson... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author C J Flood and editor Venetia Gosling have won this year’s Branford Boase Award,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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