by Stephen Tiano | Feb 23, 2021 | freelancing
I just don’t understand why some publishers refuse to even consider allowing freelance book designers to work remotely. Mostly they talk about not being ble to meet in person as some kind of impediment. Well, this is the 21st century. Haven’t they heard of...
by Stephen Tiano | Feb 15, 2021 | book design, freelancing
Having given some thought to the kinds of books I might not want to involve myself with, perhaps the time has come to consider the books I would like to help bring to press. Broadly, of course, aside from the sorts of books I prefer to avoid, any book that is a paying...
by Stephen Tiano | Feb 14, 2021 | freelancing
I found myself taking a long, hard look the other day at the issue of just what kind of books I help into print after finishing layout on the sixth over the last year or so of a string of World War II histories. Interestingly, they were punctuated somewhere in the...
by Stephen Tiano | Feb 14, 2021 | freelancing
No matter how long a person works as a freelance graphic designer—in my case about seventeen years; fourteen straight on books alone—the best feeling in the world springs from hearing a client say they have chosen you for a job. If that is so, then the worst feeling...
by Stephen Tiano | Feb 10, 2021 | freelancing
There are times in this life when something you are doing blissfully runs headlong into non-something you are doing. For me, it just as easily happens that I am in the middle of good times—my wife and I seeing good friends; enjoying good wine, fine food, and great...
by Stephen Tiano | Feb 9, 2021 | book design, freelancing, post
I make books. Or at least the electronic pages that distill into files that go to commercial printers, where large sheets are printed and cut into individual pages. These printed pages then make their way into bound books. If you send me a manuscript and textfiles, I...
