Photo Book Design: From Concept to Binding
Choose and Organize Images
A course by Roberta Donatini , Graphic Designer and Art Director
About the video: Choose and Organize Images
Overview
“I will now move on to select the images (and texts) that will be part of the book. The editing phase is demanding and time-consuming. You will then see some sequence and rhythm display modes that help you evaluate your choices.”
In this video lesson Roberta Donatini addresses the topic: Choose and Organize Images, which is part of the Domestika online course: Photo Book Design: From Concept to Binding. Learn to create a photography book, from selecting the images, format, and design to the paper and binding for your mock-up.
Partial transcription of the video
“Choose and organize images Let's now move on to the editing phase. In general, it is called editing the process of selection and preparation of photographic written material, visual, audiovisual, cinematographic, etc., to communicate a message or information. In the context of the photo book, editing consists in choosing the images that will become part of our book. Of course, this is also the stage in which we will understand which images will not be part of the final series. In addition to choosing the images, you also have to decide how they will appear in the book, in what order, then d...”
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Course summary for: Photo Book Design: From Concept to Binding
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Category
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Software
Adobe InDesign -
Areas
Bookbinding, Design, Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Photography

Roberta Donatini
A course by Roberta Donatini
Roberta Donatini is a graphic designer and art director who lives in Milan. In 2016, following a stay in Paris where she worked with multiple photographers, designers, and architects, she took an offer to join the in-house team at Fabrica, an experimental communications research center based in Treviso.
She currently collaborates with cultural institutions, studios, and communication agencies on a freelance basis. She specializes in editorial photography and creating photo books, from the concept to final print, and has been teaching editorial design at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan since 2021. She also organizes dance events around Milan and other cities with the collective Ciao Mare (@ciaomarebaci).
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