Middle Ground, revised edit, March 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale At this point the realist side (aka the practical engineer) of my personality is kicking in. While I would really, really like to have a large commercial (trade) photobook of the leporello design published, I am not sure that I can obtain the financing for this... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground – Bookdummy PoC
Middle Ground, Bookdummy Proof of Concept, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale When I found myself in the midst of developing the Middle Ground project, I also went into a book development phase. I know that a photobook of some sort was where I would eventually end up with one at least aspect of the project. I... Continue Reading →
Book dummy: Guide to Self-publishing an Indie Artist Book
book dummy, Guide to Self-publishing an Indie Artist Book 2017 Douglas Stockdale Well today I just posted on Instagram the photo above revealing what my book commission is about that I have been working so diligently on for the past three weeks. Not that I was looking to write a how-to, but there are some... Continue Reading →
Book commission – editing in progress
Book commission, edits 2017 Douglas Stockdale A couple of days ago I blogged about the working on the text formatting process for this book commission. In the meantime Craig and I worked out a text layout design and a method to work together on how to complete this aspect of the book. While working on... Continue Reading →
Commission book dummy phase 3
Commission book dummy, text layout alternatives, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale At the end of last week I posted about having a better defined book dummy; a straw man for the amount of pages I might need and well into the process of using post-it notes to signify what attributes of this book commission were going... Continue Reading →
Bluewater Shore artist book update
Bluewater Shore copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale So if life is not crazy enough, I might be also looking to self-publish in 2017 my photobook Bluewater Shore, the second in my series of Holiday Snaps project (the first being Pine Lake). Honestly, this project took a little holiday when (1) it took a lot of energy... Continue Reading →