Editorial Design: How a Book is Made
Textbooks that have influenced me
A course by Enric Jardí , Graphic Designer
About the video: Textbooks that have influenced me
Overview
“We are going to see specific cases of books that share an important common part with other pieces of editorial design: the text body. These are some cases that I find interesting.”
In this video lesson Enric Jardí addresses the topic: Textbooks that have influenced me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Editorial Design: How a Book is Made. Learn to format a text with clarity, hierarchy, and beauty.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences Hello. I'm going to show you some books that will interest you. They are interesting because they influence in the way we design books today. This is an 18th century book which is composed of movable types, what Gutenberg invented, that each of the letters was composed individually. As you can see, the book hasn't changed much in this time. We continue composing quite the same. It says the page number at the top. We see things that are no longer done. For instance, they put the last word on the next page so that they would not get lost, especially since a lot of people read aloud...”
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Course summary for: Editorial Design: How a Book is Made
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Enric Jardí
A course by Enric Jardí
Enric Jardí is a graphic designer who loves letters and typography. He's worked in many fields throughout his career, but has mainly focused on editorial design, art direction, book covers, corporate identity, typography, and illustration.
He has published several books, including Veintidós consejos sobre tipografía (que algunos diseñadores jamás revelarán) y veintidós cosas que nunca debes hacer con las letras (que algunos tipógrafos nunca te dirán) and Pensar con imágenes, which have both been translated into several other languages.
Enric combines his professional career with teaching at multiple academic centers such as the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the Blanquerna foundation, the Universitat Ramon Llull in Barcelona, ELISAVA, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, the University of Lapland in Finland, and IDEP Barcelona.
He served as president of the Asociación de Directores de Arte y Diseñadores Gráficos ADG-FAD for several years and has received multiple awards for his design work, including a European Design Award, a Laus, a D&AD Award, a Malofiej for infographics, and the Premio Nacional de Cultura design prize from the Autonomous Government of Catalonia.
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