Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components of a book into a coherent whole. In the words of Jan Tschichold, "methods and rules upon which it is impossible to improve, have been developed over centuries. To produce perfect books, these rules have to be brought back to life and applied."
Front matter, or preliminaries, is the first section of a book and is usually the smallest section in terms of the number of pages. Each page is counted, but no folio or page number is expressed or printed, on either display pages or blank pages.
Back to purity, back to simplicity
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.
10 summer festivals from Berlin to Leipzig
Films are chosen in each category by a section director with the advice of a committee of film experts.
An urbanist's guide to the best cities to visit
Learn how to get there, where to stay and how to have the best time.
Nordic nature and Scandinavian lifestyle
The ways that vast empty spaces affect how you feel and how to spend your summer the Scandinavian way.
Let your culture be your brand
A brand in order to be relevant to consumers and sustainable over time must operate much like a culture.
Why every designer should visit Rotterdam?
After initial crisis re-construction the center of Rotterdam has become the site of ambitious new architecture.