Book design is such an important part of a reader’s experience. Your book design should subtly enhance the reader’s journey through your pages while not distracting them from your book’s content. I have experience creating smooth, intuitive book layouts and can bring my skills to your book project, whether it’s fiction, nonfiction, or poetry.
Print Book Design
I designed the interior of How to Raise a Founder With Heart by Jim Marggraff and contributed to the book’s back cover design.
I designed the layout for the five editions Capsule Stories published since March 2019.
Photo by Ellie Middendorf for Capsule Stories 
Photo by Ellie Middendorf for Capsule Stories 
Photo by Ellie Middendorf for Capsule Stories 
Photo by Ellie Middendorf for Capsule Stories
I redesigned the layout of the body of Sigma Tau Delta’s 2017 critical essays and creative writing journals on InDesign, creating a template design complete with paragraph styles that can be emptied and reused as needed. I worked with another editorial intern to complete the layout of the two journals.
I designed, formatted, and edited Concordia’s creative writing journal Potpourri 2015 completely from scratch by myself in April 2015 on InDesign. I did not have access to digital copies of any previous issues of Potpourri, so I decided to design my own creative writing journal based on elements I liked from literary magazines I had seen. I attempted to keep the lines and fonts light so as not to detract from the wonderful poetry and prose. I used simple but relevant artwork submitted by a Concordia student to separate different sections of the journal.
Ready, Set, Design!
Get in touch with me today to talk about your book’s design.