Abraham Burickson: Books are Experiences
October 24, 2023
What does the staying power of the book have to teach us about designing for focus? When I sat down with Erica Holeman to talk about designing a book about… READ MORE
October 24, 2023
What does the staying power of the book have to teach us about designing for focus? When I sat down with Erica Holeman to talk about designing a book about… READ MORE
November 21, 2016
Peter M. Blaiwas — The Absolutely Unique Challenges of Publishing the Voynich Manuscript Fascsimile Book In 2014, Yale University Press approached Wordesign Services to copyedit, design, and produce a facsimile… READ MORE
October 28, 2016
Tony Seddon— I recently wrote a book titled Essential Type: An Illustrated Guide to Understanding and Using Fonts. When I started the book I assumed, as one does with any… READ MORE
April 22, 2016
The Yale Center for British Art celebrates its grand reopening on May 11th, and this summer it will offer a marvelous exhibition: “The Poet of Them All”: William Shakespeare and Miniature… READ MORE
December 22, 2015
Today’s edition of From the Designer’s Desk features insight and humor from Michael Bierut, a partner at design firm Pentagram whose numerous, genius designs we encounter daily — whose inimitable designs make… READ MORE
November 11, 2015
Our Designers Talk Book Covers “Don’t judge a book by its cover,” the popular adage goes. But, as humans, we often do just that. In this edition of From… READ MORE
Don’t judge a book by its cover,” the popular adage goes. But, as humans, we often do just that. In this week’s blog post, as part of our 2015 AAUP… READ MORE
September 9, 2015
This month’s installment in our marvelous From the Designer’s Desk series comes from the inspired Peter Blaiwas, the designer at the helm of Peter Blaiwas Graphic Design. Here he discusses… READ MORE
July 28, 2015
Henk van Assen, in addition to being a marvelous, long-time collaborator as the designer of many books published and distributed by Yale University Press, is founding principal at HvADesign, senior… READ MORE
June 26, 2015
Our June 2015 edition of From the Designer’s Desk features Bruce Campbell, an extraordinary designer of exhibition catalogues and restorer of vintage printing presses. Why did you pursue design, rather… READ MORE