
Job: 02762 Title: 365 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers (Rockport)
Page: 355
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Job: 02762 Title: 365 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers (Rockport)
Page: 355
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DESIGNING BOOKS
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How you read is as important as how much you
read. “It’s important to not become a critic,”
says Carin Goldberg, “but to look at the book
analytically, to look at what the writer had in
mind and try and understand what he or she
was trying to do as an artist, an academic, a
historian.” This is a fine balancing act because
even though book designers need to think criti-
cally about what the writer is doing, they can’t