INDIE PUBLISHINGHow to Design and Produce Your Own Book

Edited by Ellen Lupton

Indie Publishing is a practical guide to creating and distributing printed books regardless of your background, skill set, or ambition. It will help you realize projects of every scale and budget, from the traditional bookmaking techniques used to create zines to the more ambitious industrial production methods required to produce hardcover books in large quantity.

Indie Publishing's special focus on the visual design of books makes it unique among publish-it-yourself manuals. Readers are taken step-by-step through the process of designing a book to give it personal style as well as visual coherence and authority.

Published with the Herb Lubalin Center, The Cooper Union

2008 / 176 pp / 270 color images / 978-1-56898-760-6 / pb / $21.95