{"id":396,"date":"2007-11-01T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/01\/book-design-persian-ceramics\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T05:00:47","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T13:00:47","slug":"book-design-persian-ceramics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/misc\/asianculture\/book-design-persian-ceramics\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Design: Persian Ceramics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the beginning stages of designing a new book about Persian ceramics. It will be a small book (for an art book), at 9.5 x 10 inches the closest to square I have ever done. This is the proportion known as the &#8220;turned pentagram&#8221; because it is the shape of a rectangle drawn around the five corners of an equal-sided pentagram. I still have a bunch of work to do, but an essay spread will probably look something like this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/persian-ceramics\/essay-spread.jpg\" title=\"persian ceramics essay spread\" alt=\"persian ceramics essay spread\" height=\"238\" width=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For entry pages I&#8217;m planning on putting the tombstone information at the bottom facing the large recto images. The chat retains the decorative initial (from the Poetica font set; the main text is a form of Garamond). Does this look okay?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/persian-ceramics\/entry-spread.jpg\" title=\"persian ceramics entry spread\" alt=\"persian ceramics entry spread\" height=\"238\" width=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are the underlying page guides. The magenta area is the main text block &#8212; a four column block, although I may only use two columns for text.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/persian-ceramics\/design-guides.jpg\" title=\"persian ceramics design guides\" alt=\"persian ceramics design guides\" height=\"236\" width=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The cover would use the same page design elements.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/persian-ceramics\/persian-ceramics-cover.jpg\" title=\"persian ceramics cover\" alt=\"persian ceramics cover\" height=\"453\" width=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a closer view of the type treatment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/persian-ceramics\/title-treatment.jpg\" title=\"title type treatment\" alt=\"title type treatment\" height=\"197\" width=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Again, this is all a little preliminary, but it reflects my plans at this stage. I am trying, of course, to match the design to the content. You may be able to see from the first couple of spreads the sort of proportions that are typical of Persian ceramics. If anyone has any suggestions I would be happy to hear them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the beginning stages of designing a new book about Persian ceramics. It will be a small book (for an art book), at 9.5 x 10 inches&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}