Book design services for the design of trade books; book design, cover design, and dust jacket design, for publishers, museums, and university presses.

Offering a sensitive application to digital typography, from a background in metal typography.

 

Welcome to

idesignbooks.com

Devoted to books for twenty-five years

 

phone & fax: 207.829.5038

Contact us about designing a book or book cover.

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Cover design for trade books in four color.

cover designs

Book designs and page designs of beautiful books, many of them hand made books printed and bound by hand.

page designs

Book binding for new books or book restorations and facsimiles of old books bound in leather and decorated papers for the collector, library, or institution, are all archival.

book binding

Book design began with the geometry of the scribes layout of early maunscripts.

A brief history of book design

A selection of interesting web sites related to books.

links

For 25 years Jeffrey Haste has worked in the book arts, and has been a visual artist all of his life.

professional data

 

Deerbrook Editions has published trade books of poetry and a childrens book.

Click the angel to visit Deerbrook Editions publication page. Deerbrook Editions publishes trade volumes of emerging poets. Google Deerbrook Editions to learn more.

author album and reviews

An interesting article on poetry distribution       http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/feature.onpoetry.html?id=179636

Celebrate poetry month, discover poetry in your neck of the woods

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Frenando Pessoa, 1888-1935, in memory, Lisboa, Portugal.

A card of Pessoa from a traveling poet

 

An old book is a cherished treasure, food for thought.

book of the month

 

We also design web sites. This site was designed using Dreamweaver.

Want to see an example of our work designing web sites?

go to  majolicamosaics.com

Antique R. Hoe & Co. HandpressThe Press at Deerbrook

 

The World as Will and Representation.     If you recognize these gentlemen, think we should talk?    The Birth of Tragedy.

 

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