Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Surviving change

There's been plenty of change lately but just look at how books have survived from where they first started. Thank goodness for the book designer we say.


The upheaval in the book trade has meant hard times for everyone. With our workloads a bit lighter we have kept ourselves busy and ahead of the game by reading. There is heaps of it to be done. Changes in ebooks and with Creative Suite have meant we now have the technology as designers to offer way more services than ever before. Do ask us before heading off to someone else for help with animation, video and interactive graphics. This round-up from Books in Browsers is a good guide for where we are heading for the future.

Digital publications are now part of our daily production and it's a real pleasure to produce an ebook that values the readers experience. Whether this be in a fixed or reflowable format or an app. The look of your book design is tops and the main element for portraying quality. We have our head around digital covers and can help guide you with innovations in ebook marketing and how to design an ebook wrapper.

images here with links through to portfolio on website that opens in a new window.

We have had a go and entered an ebook title that we recently designed for Scholastic NZ in the Digital Design Books Awards (part of the Digital Book World Conference in New York). Who knows if it will get anywhere. But sometimes you just have to give things a go.