As for my summary:
Rebecca Senf’s blog post is a rather detailed walkthrough of
the myriad considerations an artist is face with when self-publishing a book;
in addition to mentioning some pitfalls, she provides photos of examples that
she reviewed during the jury selection of books to be presented in the 2014
exhibition of Self-Published Photo Books. The major points she brought up were:
typeface, editing (paring down, specifically), form (does the book match
content/intent?), text placement, trim size, pitfalls of templates, and why
getting help matters.
The various books she selected were extremely helpful in
seeing exactly what ‘works’ and why, though I would have liked to see examples
of what doesn’t work as well- I can understand from her perspective as a juror
that it would be inappropriate to show books submitted as such examples. That
said, though, the incredible variety shown still astounds me, even after the
guided tour of the artist books at the library.
I was very interested in her short section on typeface-
having struggled with fonts that don’t ‘work’ on projects, I zeroed in on her
suggestions. Taking photos of books that are inspirational has been something
I’ve done for a few years now, so the idea of snapping fonts that might be good
references make a lot of sense. I wish she’d have divulged her favorite fonts,
though!
On a related note, I often see fonts I like on websites, so
I did a lot of searching and found several great plugins that allow you to see
the font information on type you hover over with the cursor.
WhatFont (Chrome)
Font Finder (Firefox)
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