ith over 30 years of art and design experience and 15 years as a full time graphic designer I am well equipped to handle your project. Let me put this experience to work for you. Regardless of where your potential reader sees your book, the cover will play a big role in determining if they take a second look and pick it up off the shelf. If you like what you see here, complete the quote request form with the particulars of your project and I will send you a firm quote.

Your quote is guaranteed — as long as the project does not change, you will not be charged more than the quoted price.

Yes I would like a FREE guaranteed quote on my book design. Quotes are guaranteed; you will not be charged more than the quoted price so long as the job doesn't change.

Cover designs

promotional book design example promotional book design example catalogue

A cover for a 600 page
industrial catalogue.
Perfect bound with a
full wraparound cover.

catalogue

The next issue of the
updated catalogue.
Perfect bound with a
full wraparound cover.

Cover concept.

   
catalogue

Cover for a 130 page
industrial specialty tool
catalogue. Perfect
bound with a full
wraparound cover.

Here is a before and
after example.

promotional book design example

Cover proposal for a unique book
combining gardening and writing.

Another book proposal.
See below for interior pages.

Quillrunner logo ideas and style guide.

Yes I would like a FREE guaranteed quote on my book design. Quotes are guaranteed; you will not be charged more than the quoted price so long as the job doesn't change.

Inside page designs

I like to design in a classic format. Several hundred years of experimentation have shown us a great deal about what works and what doesn't. This doesn't mean that your book must be designed this way but it is a good place to start. I've included several examples of different design approaches.
It's ironic that the layout and typography in a well designed book is unnoticeable. People will say that every turn of the page was interesting and the words flowed off the page, and this could be entirely due to the quality of your writing. However if the text is full of awkward paragraph breaks that make it difficult to follow to the next page and looks like the printer made cutting mistakes with the text too deep in the gutter or close to the page edge, the reader will know. Text set too solid, or too small, or with lines too long can be tiring to read, and your reader will know.
These examples should give you an idea of what your book can look like. If you want to print out a page for readability use the print version in the link and make sure to print it at 100% with 'Fit to Page' turned off.

novel book design

Novel design. This uses placement text only and allows you to see the design rather than trying to read the text.
Print version

novel book design

Same but with different fonts.
Print version

novel book design

Same but justified.
Print version

novel book design

I've always liked the readability of the New Baskerville font family.
Print version

novel book design

Garamond font, set 11 / 14 ragged right gives a different feel to the text.
Print version

complex book layout

Complex format set in a classic style. Many texts are set with much smaller margins sometimes to the books detriment.

Basic text format but with many text graphic elements and footnotes.

Interior page of Vancouver in Panorama.

complex book layout

Complex format, two column with multiple text formats.

Yes I would like a FREE guaranteed quote on my book design. Quotes are guaranteed; you will not be charged more than the quoted price so long as the job doesn't change.

 

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