by Kim Dovey | Apr 7, 2014 | Book Design, Customer Service, eBooks, Future of The Book, Interactive Content, Social Media, Studio, Website
This is the place for publishers to hear what’s new, what’s working and what’s fallen into the ‘has been’ pile. As a designer I like to go along to quietly sit in the corner and listen. To continue providing services to publishers we need...
by Kim Dovey | Mar 2, 2014 | Book Design, Educational Publishing, Studio
Year 9 Graphics is a print and digital product that won Best Educational Design at the PANZ Book Design Awards. Excellence in Biology Level 3 received a highly commended in 2010. Both books are published by Cengage NZ, for whom we have produced a variety of books over...
by Kim Dovey | Jan 30, 2014 | Book Design, Social Media, Studio, Uncategorized
Have you seen this? It was really nice of Booksellers and Beatties Book Blog to feature us. The role of the book designer in publishing An interview with Kim Dovey and Dexter Fry, provided by www.smartworkcreative.co.nz What is your background in book design? Kim...
by Kim Dovey | Jan 15, 2014 | Educational Publishing, Studio
The New Zealand dollar is a cost-effective currency for international publishers to get bulk work completed. We run the latest software and have a reputation for being hard-working, innovative thinkers. Our time difference works well for the US and Australian...
by Kim Dovey | Dec 16, 2013 | Book Design, Educational Publishing, Inspiration, Studio
We have just posted off the last parcel to end a 4 year educational project. Our production system shows we have redesigned 214 books, but I know the production system is only 2.5 years old, so that is not all of them. With the help of Peter Bray (who left us some...
by Kim Dovey | Nov 19, 2013 | eBooks, Future of The Book, Inspiration, Studio
Creative Suite has always been the weapon of choice for the work we do everyday and it has just gotten sooooo much better. Using the ebook and digital research we have been exploring recently, we started to see what other sort of publication tools we could play with...