Author Archives: terry dugan

The BelieversPress blog features Q & A sessions with the experts we work with, answering questions that you’ve asked. Have a question? Click the link in the sidebar to submit it! You asked, What is the key to a fiction cover that customers will pick up? As publishers and designers, we’re always trying to figure [...]

The BelieversPress blog is going to be featuring Q & A sessions with the experts we work with, answering questions that you’ve asked. Have a question? Ask it here and we’ll get you an answer! You asked: What’s the difference between graphic designer and CBA book designer? Terry replied: A few definitions: Graphic Design - “the art [...]

With the now serious arrival of e-books for a growing list of devices (I read mine on my iPod Touch) culminating in Apple’s much-vaunted iPad, clearly e-reading has the attention of the mainstream publishing industry. All the publications are abuzz with it, but what I wonder is how does the book-loving public feel about it? [...]

I’ve always believed a couple of fairly obvious book design axioms: 1. Book cover design is essentially package design. As with soup, or cereal or any product sold via shelf or photo, the outside must dramatize the inside and resonate with the customer in some way. 2. The task and the joy of a designer [...]

I’m offering tips from time to time, from a book designer’s perspective, on how to get the creative best out of creatives. Again a disclaimer: None of this is meant to suggest that you have to be extra careful around artist-types and only approach them in certain ways. If you run into a prima donna [...]

When deciding whether a cover design is right for your book, as with any product package you’re first asking a couple of important questions: Does it accurately represent the contents? Does it engage customers emotionally? Make them want to pick it up, turn it over, flip through it, find out what’s inside? Good questions, but [...]

I hope to offer tips from time to time, from a book designer’s perspective of course, on how to get the creative best out of creative types. I will suggest three for the moment. First off, let’s dispel some myths about working with artists: They’re not all prima donnas, and successful designers are used to [...]

As book designers, we’re rarely asked to help with the wording of a title. That job is already done–or at least nearly so–by the time a cover design assignment comes to us. Our job is to work with whatever we’re given and make it look great. That’s the challenge and part of the fun of [...]