Tag: Book Design
JHU Press art director, Martha Sewall, shared the wonderful news that an armful of JHUP books won awards at the recent New York Book Show. She reports that the annual event, sponsored by the Book Industry Guild of New York, is “a big show that includes entries from New York publishers along with university presses.”…
Words matter. But, when it comes to book publishing, so do art and design. During this University Press Week, we chose the theme “Our UP in Pictures” to go behind the scenes and show how the visual elements which accompany an author’s words are selected, shaped, and formed. In Part I of the post, we speak with JHU Press Art Director…
Words matter. But, when it comes to book publishing, so do art and design. During this University Press Week, we chose the theme “Our UP in Pictures” to go behind the scenes and show how the visual elements which accompany an author’s words are selected, shaped, and formed. In Part I of the post, we speak with JHU Press Art Director…
Amish women have long been connoisseurs of fabric, skilled at assessing the differences in weight, hand, color, and texture. The Ordnung—or guidelines that govern church districts at the local level—has long limited Amish families’ fabric choices for clothing to solid colors. As a result, for much of the twentieth century Amish women typically executed quilts…
Amish women have long been connoisseurs of fabric, skilled at assessing the differences in weight, hand, color, and texture. The Ordnung—or guidelines that govern church districts at the local level—has long limited Amish families’ fabric choices for clothing to solid colors. As a result, for much of the twentieth century Amish women typically executed quilts…
That’s become our motto at the JHU Press, where the only constant is change, as they say. And we’ve decided to embrace it. So when a prominent dermatologist agreed to write a book for us on the condition that we publish it as a multi-touch iBook, with patient videos and three-dimensional graphics, we replied with an…
That’s become our motto at the JHU Press, where the only constant is change, as they say. And we’ve decided to embrace it. So when a prominent dermatologist agreed to write a book for us on the condition that we publish it as a multi-touch iBook, with patient videos and three-dimensional graphics, we replied with an…
By Greg Britton, editorial director On December 17, 2012, three days after the devastating shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, JHU Press director Kathleen Keane received a call from the office of the president of Johns Hopkins University. Ronald J. Daniels wanted to do something about the epidemic of gun violence in America, and he…
By Vincent Burke, executive editor Here is the recipe for science book success: One part brilliant scientist with odd interests, one part great story that has never been told, one part incredible visuals that amaze everyone who views them, one part editor looking for something different to add to his mix of titles. Let’s start…
By Greg Britton, Editorial Director Filling the publishing airwaves these days is talk of the revolution in e-books. Kindle versus iPad, ePub versus PDF, DRM versus OA, enhancements versus apps. Not all physical books have shuffled off this mortal coil, however. Not by a long shot. Yet as books migrate from the corporal to the…