Book Production (with CD-ROM)

Author: Ding Jianchao
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: Book Production is the sister volume to Book Design. Book Design focuses on design, enhancing artistic quality and cultivation through the appreciation of numerous classic book design works, broadening readers' horizons. In contrast, Book Production emphasizes the production process. After designers have generated creative ideas, they use design software such as Photoshop, FreeHand, Illustrator, and PageMaker to layout the main body of the book, design the cover, and then send it to a printing factory for film output, sampling, and finally printing and binding. This book summarizes the strengths of previous similar publications, starting from the basics and systematically introducing the application of book production software, the production process, book formats, paper cutting methods, techniques for dust jackets, covers, endpapers, title pages, layouts, typography, page numbering, headings, and illustrations. It concludes by discussing paper knowledge, printing knowledge, plate-making technology, and binding techniques. Following the principle of simplicity and gradual progression, the book first explains the theoretical knowledge of book production, then presents practical examples of book design effects. Each example includes three parts: work appreciation, creative explanation, and production steps, making the content clear and easy to understand. Accompanying the book is a CD-ROM containing: color illustrations, source files for all examples (in formats such as .psd, .ai, or .eps), and all material images. This is one of the book's greatest features. Book Production is suitable for students of art and design, visual communication, and computer art majors in art colleges across the country, as well as self-taught individuals in the field of art and design.