{"id":3559,"date":"2011-02-10T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T08:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/?p=3559"},"modified":"2011-04-06T14:29:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T13:29:44","slug":"look-after-your-spines-book-designers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/look-after-your-spines-book-designers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Look after your spines, book designers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativereview.co.uk\/cr-blog\/2011\/february\/book-spine-design-fixabook\" target=\"_blank\">Creative Review blog<\/a>, I&#8217;ve just been reading about how book spines are often neglected when designing covers, and the importance of their appearance when on bookshelves (after all, that&#8217;s the portion potential buyers or aesthetically conscious owners often see first). We&#8217;re currently in the process of designing a slipcase template for series of eBooks, which will lend a much needed physicality &#8211; transforming them int0 stable, store-able artifacts, rather than handfuls of booklets. The studio is overrun with vast quantities of eBooks produced over the years, and these will provide a handy organisation system, as well as looking swish. As for the spines, we&#8217;re <strong>bound<\/strong> by certain template constraints, but they&#8217;ll surely surpass some of the clangers featured <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fixabook.com\/category\/spines\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of the Creative Review blog, I&#8217;ve just been reading about how book spines are often neglected when designing covers, and the importance of their appearance when on bookshelves (after all, that&#8217;s the portion potential buyers or aesthetically conscious owners often see first). We&#8217;re currently in the process of designing a slipcase template for series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[12,17,337],"class_list":["post-3559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-design","tag-ebooks","tag-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3559"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4186,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions\/4186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}