#Book Design

[thebeautifulbook]

DIE PFLANZE IN KUNST UND GEWERBE [aka THE PLANT IN ART AND INDUSTRY ]by Anton Seder. (Gerlach & Schenk, 1886) Color lithographs. 2 vols. 200 plates

Anton Johann Nepomuk Seder (11 January 1850, Munich – 1 December 1916, Strasbourg) was an Art Nouveau designer, art professor and Director of the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) in Strasbourg.

source book 1

source book 2

[heaveninawildflower]

Book cover - Robert Montesquiou-Fézensac. 'Les chauves-souris, clairs-obscurs.'

Paris: Georges Richard, 1892.

Public Domain Review.

[clem8tis]

1st ed. vc andrews covers by milton charles & gillian hills

[canon-in-too-deep]

25 Free Typesets!

New achievement unlocked! I've finished my 25th public domain typeset, and you can find all 25 unimposed pdfs for FREE here! (Personal use only! Use these to read, bind, burn, or ignore at your pleasure!) I'm so excited to post this collage of all the title pages I've done for pd texts thus far. I started getting into typesetting earlier this year, and that journey started with googling "what is typesetting???" 😅😆. Since then, it's been fun exploring literature and the designs surrounding text. Anyway, thank you to everyone who's stopped by this blog! It's meant a lot to me, whether you liked/reblogged/followed, or just took a look!

[myjetpack]

My latest Guardian Books cartoon

[dr-graf]

"The Hollow Boy" by Jonathan Stroud cover and illustrations

[designeverywhere]

Squama B-Sides exhibition

[mythwoven]

Latest eBay finds!!! My hyper specific collection of 70s paperbacks grows ever more complete 📚

[lovewanttimetopause]

[locusfandomtime]

fake book covers based on Cub’s museum gift shop and the signs he posted with fake book titles! This was a lot of fun haha. I know there are more fake books, and now he’s getting signed books from hermits, so I plan on making more soon! May even make a Reddit account just to post these guys on the subreddit

design notes under cut!

The Diamond Pillar Saga: Hotguy(TM) Flies Again - this title evoked such a visceral image of something you’d find in a Scholastic book fair so I went for sort of pre-teen superhero action novel, the kind with a bunch of pictures and stupid chapter titles. I imagine in-universe Scar is trying to sell as much Hotguy merch as possible so whilst he has stuff for the adults (shirtless calendars) he’d also have comic books and novels for the kids. There’s a concorp logo because I like to think the Hotguy brand is owned by concorp and it was just a cool touch

Grian’s Theory of The Mind - have you ever seen books on like psychology and breaking habits and behaviour, that kind of stuff? They always look like this. There’s a yellow background, a simple abstract design, a bunch of book awards/reviews, and a single sentence hook. This one was the easiest and most fun to design!

Joe Hills: Transformative Poems - this was based on the “Joe Hills Poetry Corner”. Transformative poems is from “transformative works” meaning… fanfiction basically. Joe has written fanfic before and I thought an Iliad/Hermit crossover would be something he’d do. Joe made the cover himself so it has a dyed leather cover and a simple design. He tried to ask Cleo for a review so he could put one on the front but she was kinda mean about it and laughed at him so he wrote a fake one instead

Ren the King: A Complicated Legacy - this one had no explicit author but I decided Cleo made the most logical sense. Historical non-fiction books often have these B+W photo backgrounds with some dramatic, fancy text overtop, so I painted the Crastle and added then messed around with text. There’s a reduced sticker over Cleo’s name because this is Cub’s gift shop and he wouldn’t want to give her credit (but still wants to stock up his shop)

[aduckmentalistin]

Amazing book cover!

[thebeautifulbook]

CODEX ROTUNDUS (Flanders, c.1480)

Held by Dombibliothek Hildesheim, Germany.

source

[heaveninawildflower]

Decorative front cover of ‘Beauty in Common Things.’ Illustrated by J. W. Whymper.

Published 1874 by S.P.C.K.

Fisher - University of Toronto 

archive.org

[caito-does-stuff]

here are my current covers i'm really trying to do a lot of different styles to get a feel for everything

[canon-in-too-deep]

What is a typeset? Basically, a printable version of a text for bookbinding/reading/whathaveyou. Soooo, currently I have twelve free typesets of public domain works available! 🎊 [Edit: As of 7/10, up to 18!] Twelve was a soft goal for myself (though I have no intention of stopping just yet), and I've had so much fun making these and sharing them all! Here are each of the interior title pages lined up together, from top left to bottom right in order of when I made them. Anyone have a favorite so far? I enjoyed making all of them, though the Jekyll and Hyde one is a particular source of pride. All the files for these books are available in the google drive: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1S2wl_PuxCupofnDpqGuk7VjMHYFMWC6g Everything is sized for letter folio, except for Jekyll and Hyde and The Call of Cthulhu, which are sized for letter quatro. Most of the art/images are from canva or rawpixel. All of these typesets are free for your personal use, but please like/reblog if you can!

And a big thank you to everyone who has stopped by this blog, dropped a like/reblog/ or even a follow. It is greatly appreciated! ❤️ Guys I'm just so happy to have an even dozen in my folder. Twelve is a nice number. (The alternates kind of throw me off though...😆)

[cupidofcrimeee]

Camp Folktale (summer of '86) - cairparavels

So I had this one bound and finished for ages, but it always felt incomplete. I still think it feels incomplete and too simple and I can't figure out what to add to it, so decided to post it.

But this is a favorite Steddie fic of mine.

Art: commissioned from @toktopus-art

Bookcloth: hollanders

Vinyl: htvront and vinyl frog green foil

Charm: Etsy

Typeset: me