Book Design
Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components of a book into a coherent whole.
In the words of Jan Tschichold, book design “[…] though largely forgotten today, methods and rules upon which it is impossible to improve have been developed over centuries. To produce perfect books these rules have to be brought back to life and applied.” Richard Hendel describes book design as “an arcane subject” and refers to the need for a context to understand what that means.
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July 12th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Now a days book designers are falling in trap of rendering Newton’s First law to the book designs.As per this law they try to balanc all the elements of the pages. These elements are shapes, dimensions, color scheme, postioning of images, text on the pages.
Instead they should use Entropy principle. This will create a “tension” in the page and will make reader’s mind to concentrate more on the page and thus will induce more intreset about the book.
Yes, content should also be readable otherwise what the **** a good design will do. Its like creating more and more super ideas and plans and never executing any of those.
July 12th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Dear Harry I agree with your fire brand Ideas.
It would be great if you can elaborate on the concepts a little more. I am impressed with the use of physics in the sense of design and would be happy if you elaborate a little more for the benefit of every one.
Best regards AKS