Archive for July 2009

The best (and scariest) time of the year

The books are starting to come back from the printers. This means that lots of things are set in stone: it is too late to make a change on page 30 to the book that is sitting on a pallet in the middle of the Indian Ocean or has just arrived in the warehouse from [...]

Catalogues … The Devil’s Work

Have you ever had to put together a catalogue? If so, you know where I’m coming from here: if not, be glad and run a mile if the subject ever comes up! A catalogue looks all innocent, but any document that has over 50o images relating to over 500 titles, each of which has a [...]

Notes from the Design Desk … Best-Loved Irish Legends

We are just putting the finishing touches to our exciting new Best-Loved Irish Legends with some fantastic illustration by Lisa Jackson. Lisa has done a great job and really enlivened these great time honoured stories freshly interpreted by Eithne Massey. The process started with the text which I put into layout, wrote a brief and [...]