Publishing house

Friends, I have some fabulous news that I have been absolutely bursting to share with you: I HAVE A PUBLISHING DEAL!!! Yup, this is not a drill. My contemporary YA novel, NEVERLAND, has been picked…

A leading European book publisher founded in 1950, Suhrkamp Verlag is a household name in much of Germany. Its literary portfolio includes such international heavyweights as Samuel Beckett and T.S. Eliot. Following a relocation from Frankfurt to Berlin in 2010, how­ever, financial troubles and internal strife left staff languishing for years at temporary headquarters. But eventually the company found a permanent home in a six-story ground-up building by Bundschuh Architekten.

figure3 has developed thew new offices of Penguin Random House located in Toronto, Ontario. With the merger of publishing heavyweights Penguin and Random

An office for a book publisher is housed within this faceted white building, designed by ThePlus Architects for a six-metre-wide site in Seoul

Penguin and Random House Make Their Mark as Partners with New Logo -- Publishing is based on the art of words and the emphasis was recently on the “art” as two powerhouse publishers merged and tried to paint their literary logos into a single picture of partnership. The publishing world watched and waited to see how these long-running logos would be banded and blended together. After months of online speculation, the answer was just revealed in a refined... #Logos #Design #Branding

There are many good reasons to hire a professional editor, but also a number of compelling reasons to hold off and save your money.

If you aren't familiar with "The Casual Optimist blog":http://www.casualoptimist.com/ about publishing and book culture then it's well worth checking out (I'll wait). Anyway last week its author shared these amazing posters created by the leading German graphic designer Gunter Rambow for the S. Fischer Verlag publishing house back in the 1970s. What's interesting is that some of them tiptoe right up to the edge of being gimmicky, but always stay the right side of the line thanks to Gunter's…

Signs you were made to work in publishing: your love life revolves around your TBR pile, you read about correlation theories at the beach, and you've literally inked your passion for the written word on your skin permanently. When people say "do…

Image 22 of 33 from gallery of Suhrkamp Verlag Offices / Kinzo. Photograph by Sebastian Doerken

A Linotype operator in a publishing house Circa 1920. 🖤 Linotype is a type of 19th century printing technique that printed an entire line instead of each character on the printing surface. The linotype process allowed the quick and easy printing in bulk of products such as newspapers, magazines and books. This method of printing was used until the 1960s and 1970 until offset lithography and early computerized methods replaced this printing process. #womeninhistory #vintagephoto