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Book design

User design can help with the complete graphic communication design, illustration
and production of books, and offer advice on paper and binding. We can help with
a wide range of books:

  • Academic.
  • Children’s.
  • Dictionaries.
  • Educational, school books.
  • Instruction manuals.
  • Journals.
  • Language learning.
  • Large print.
  • Medical, scientific, technical.
  • Picture books.
  • Poetry.
  • Reference.
  • Teenage.
  • Textbooks.
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Project Gutenberg.
Political and Literary Essays 1908–1913 by the Earl of Cromer.
Academic.
Book cover design, book design and typesetting.
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1 column layout with captions in English and Greek. Page size:
160 × 225mm. Pages: 216. Paper: Think Warm, 100gm, 50% recycled.

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BioMed Central.
BMC Medical Imaging, Volume 5.
Medical, scientific.
Book cover design, scientific/medical textbook design and typesetting.
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1 column layout based on 9 × 9 grid, superiors/references, Greek/
mathematical/scientific symbols, tables and illustrations. Pages:
184. Page size: A4: 210 × 297mm. Paper: Croxley Heritage Wove,
Ivory, 120gm, 75% recycled.

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University project.
Booklet 1: Number skills.
Booklet 2: Calculator skills.
Booklet 3: Number patterns.
Booklet 4: Shape and symmetry.
Booklet 5: Perimeter, area and volume.
Series of 5 GCSE mathematical workbooks.
Series book cover design, educational textbook design, technical
and freehand illustration, and typesetting.
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1 column layout, mathematical symbols. Page size: A5: 210 × 148.5
mm. Pages: average 30. Paper: Think Warm, 100gm, 50% recycled.

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Crown House Publishing.
We Did It Here!
Academic.
Book design, corrections, technical illustration and typesetting.
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1 column layout, captions, box quotes and illustrations. Pages: 262.
Page size: 156 × 234mm. Paper: white, 100gm.

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Collins Education (proposal).
Intermediate Mathematics for GCSE.
Educational, school book.
Educational textbook design, technical illustration and typesetting.
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2 column layout, mathematical sybmbols, complex textbook design, and
illustrations. Pages: 570. Page size: 193× 265mm. Paper: white, 90gm.

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Granta Books.
Booklet 1: Famous Blue Raincoat by Colm Tóibín.
Booklet 2: Beyond The Pleasure Principle by Hari Kunzru.
Booklet 3: Phosphorescence by Tessa Hadley.
Short story.
Book cover design, book design, freehand illustration and typesetting.
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1 column layout based on 9 × 9 grid. Page size: A6: 148 × 105mm.
Pages: average 26 each. Paper: Think Warm, 100gm, 50% recycled.

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Self published.
Punctuation..?
Children’s, teenage.
Book cover design, book design, freehand illustration and typesetting.
1 column layout with integrated text and images. Page size: 148.5 x 220 mm.
Pages: 36. Paper: Croxley Heritage Wove, White, 120gm, 75% recycled.
This book is available to buy at £7.50. Please contact us to order.

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Self published.
The Venereal Game.
Picture book.
Book design, freehand illustration and typesetting.
1 column layout with integrated text and images. Page size: A5:
210 × 148.5mm. Pages: average 30. Paper: Croxley Heritage Wove,
White, 120gm, 75% recycled.
This book is available to buy at £7.50. Please contact us to order.

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