Four Star Books: Portfolio

Typesetting Portfolio: Academic / Trade / Journals

Color, Myth, Music
Will South
North Carolina Museum of Art

Color, Myth, Music was a large-format art book and catalog. The compositor created galleys, and the art was placed by the designer, Barbara Wiedemann, directly into the files.

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The Word Detective
Evan Morris, author
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

The Word Detective had many design elements that made composing clean spreads both challenging and rewarding. The illustrations and the kicker quotes made for a dynamic design and layout.

From Word Detective by Evan Morris. Copyright ©1999 by the author, Evan Morris. Reprinted by permission of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, a division of Workman Publishing. Design by Anne Winslow. Illustrations by Carl Wiens.

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Essentials of Rorschach Assessment
Tara Rose
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Wiley & Sons' Essentials Series contained many tables, equations, boxes of information and design elements.

©2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Design by Bonnie Campbell.

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Clinician's Guide to the Healing Journey
Through Addiction
Phil Rich
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

The font used for the body text of the Clinician's Guide required hand kerning between italic and roman words because of the angle of the italic. Also, the content had to fit a very specific signature, 32 pages.

©2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Design by Bonnie Campbell.

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