Editing for Art and Design Books
How is a book organized?
A course by Julius Wiedemann, Art Book Editor
About the video: How is a book organized?
Overview
“In this lesson I am going to talk about how you can apply the LATCH model (Location, alphabetical, time, category hierarchy) that helps us organize information according to 5 classifications. This method was created Richard Saul Wurman, an American architect and designer, who, by the way, was also the precursor of the TED talks. ”
In this video lesson Julius Wiedemann addresses the topic: How is a book organized?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Editing for Art and Design Books. Learn the editorial process for publications with high visual content.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson we will see how information is organized. In a book in several ways with a theory called LATCH: "location, alphabet, time, category and hierarchy ". Let's see several examples. One of the most important parts of a book and that maybe it's the most important part It is organizing the information we have. We already saw that we know a table of contents. We have different ways of organizing the publication there. But basically, 30 years ago, that the American Richard Saul Wurman, who was a fundamental professional in the development of architecture and information, developed a t...”
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Julius Wiedemann
A course by Julius Wiedemann
Julius Wiedemann is senior editor of the German publisher TASCHEN, a publisher specialized in publishing books in the most diverse creative areas, including art, design, photography, cinema and culture in general.
Julius was born in Rio de Janeiro and has lived in Japan, Germany and England, which has given him a global perspective on the international creative scene. His profession is to search for creative minds throughout the world to edit quality books.
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