Self-Publishing Workshop

Layout and Design

Want to publish your own book? Learn the how-to’s of book design. This workshop will cover page design, text and image sequence, book layout, and cover design.

This workshop will cover all the tools needed to make your book design sing.

Topics will include:  

• The history of book design, starting from the first published books in 1450
• Page design, including margin size, paragraph shape, typography, and fonts 
• Text and image sequencing and preparation for book layout
• Free, online programs that can be used to make a book layout
• Cover design

The staff from Paper Machine will conduct this workshop. Paper Machine is Antenna’s printshop and book bindery in the Lower Ninth Ward. They are committed to making publishing and the book arts accessible to the Gulf South’s cultural contributors and cultural bearers, providing tools for printing and bookbinding, and providing opportunities for self-publishing and community partnerships.  

Attendees will have a chance to win a copy of Creative Self-Publishing: ALLi’s Guide to Independent Publishing for Authors and Poets

Sponsored by Friends of the New Orleans Public Library.

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