Scenes from Japan: Tokyo, Kyoto, and Kamakura is a special coffee-table art book by artist Kendric Tonn. Designed and printed by Bookmobile, Scenes from Japan was funded through a Kickstarter campaign that reached its goal in less than half an hour after launch—and was 500% funded at the end of its first day!
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Artistic and Life-Like
Artistic and Life-Like: Photography in Washington, 1850–1900, is the first book-length exploration of 19th century photography in Washington. Written by Tim Greyhavens and published by Grey Day Press, this book is full of historic photographs and compelling insights into Washington state’s earliest histories. Bookmobile is thrilled to have worked on the book design and typesetting, the offset print management, and book distribution for this impressive project.
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When working on A North Country Lake Throughout the Seasons, we were excited to provide not only our design and typesetting services, but also Bookmobile’s offset print management, eBook conversion, and book distribution and fulfillment services. Written by Bruce M. Carlson and published by the Woodtick Press, this book highlights the seasonal changes of Ten Mile Lake in northern Minnesota through astute observations and fascinating images.
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Continue reading “A North Country Lake Throughout the Seasons”What to Review During the Interior Book Design Process
Book design isn’t just about judging a book by its cover. Your book’s interior layout is equally important in ensuring your book’s success. A book designer will not only help you create a beautiful book, but also make sure your content is easy to read and engaging for your readers. Working with a professional book designer has many other benefits, including technical guidance on how your design choices will affect your printing cost.
As part of Bookmobile’s book design process, we will send you a design sample of 10-15 PDF pages for your review. We encourage feedback on this sample to make sure your book’s layout matches your goals. It’s crucial that we make all design decisions at this stage of the process—once you approve your book’s layout, we will apply this design to your full manuscript and then begin typesetting.
What exactly are those important design decisions? Read on to learn more.
Continue reading “What to Review During the Interior Book Design Process”Love in the Kitchen, a cookbook
In late 2020, Karen approached Bookmobile with an idea to create a special cookbook that would be given to her neice as a wedding gift . The cookbook features recipes contributed from family members and includes many recipes that hold special meaning to the family.
Once the manuscript was compiled and images sourced, Karen sent us the materials to begin the design and typesetting process. Later, Bookmobile also printed this limited edition run on our in-house digital presses.
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