by Stephen Tiano | Nov 17, 2024 | book design, freelancing
Has it really been 15 years since I last posted to the blog? I mean, almost to the day! I stopped posting to this blog back then because I’d run out of new things to say about book design, making books, and freelancing. It just felt like I was stretching beyond any...
by Stephen Tiano | May 12, 2021 | book design
I watched a documentary the other night about Frank Gehry, the architect. Something he said struck me, though, I confess, evidently not so much that I can remember just what word-for-word. I recall Mr. Gehry speaking of waiting for the one piece of work that would...
by Stephen Tiano | Apr 20, 2021 | book design, freelancing, Tools
The twenty year mark from when I bought my first Macintosh computer in November of 1989, a IIx, approaches. Before that, from 1985 on, I had been an Apple Computer fan, but I belonged to the family of Apple II users—at first on a IIe and then a IIgs. At that point all...
by Stephen Tiano | Apr 12, 2021 | book design
Opposite the wide-open approach adopted by one client, as I described last time, is the fully hands-on manner of another of my current clients. This can, and did, work as well as the first case. While the confidence of a client to proceed with a design exactly as I...
by Stephen Tiano | Apr 9, 2021 | book design
Some projects make for great fun. At the moment, I find myself in one of my best runs ever for that kind of work. First came a book interior design and layout with a new client, a small college press. As I usually do with a new client, one of my chief aims was to see...
by Stephen Tiano | Mar 28, 2021 | book design, readings, Uncategorized
Big can o’ worms! Bigger than I could have imagined. Opened a world of shaky ground for myself when I stated with such certainty that my first rule of book design is to stand, more or less, in the shadows and simply bring the author’s work to the reader. My interior...
