Book Design

'It's still magic, even if you know how it's done' SIR TERRY PRATCHETTDesigning Terry Pratchett's Discworld takes readers behind the scenes of the ...

By breaking down the study of type into a systematic progression of relationshipsletter, word, sentence, paragraph, page, and screenaward-winning g...

By breaking down the study of type into a systematic progression of relationshipsletter, word, sentence, paragraph, page, and screenaward-winning g...

An exquisite fine art edition of St John's Gospel, illuminated by artist-calligrapher Jane Sullivan. Inspired by Celtic art and the beautiful illum...

What happens when the assumptions and practices of museum curators and art educators intersect with the assumptions and practices of publishing for...

The Trier City Library preserves bibliophilic treasures of the highest value, dating back to the 7th century. The Codex Egberti, the Trier Apocalyp...

Block Printing & Book Illustration in Japan (1924) was one of the first guides to Japanese illustration, and remains indispensable to this day....

What would an anatomy of the book look like? There is the main text, of course, the file that the author proudly submits to their publisher. But ar...

Recipes are not just instructions. They also embody culture, class, belief, linguistic and literary form, and even include celebrity endorsement. M...

The sixteenth-century pictorial manuscript known as the Codex Borbonicus contains a remarkable record of the eighteen Mexica (or Aztec) festival pe...

Wise and ebullient. Dwight Garner, The New York TimesNow in paperback, the first definitive biography of Richard Avedon, a monumental photographer...

Growing up in Seale, Alabama as a Black Queer kid, then attending the Rhode Island School of Design as an undergraduate, Jon Key hungered to see hi...