I was contracted and hired by the author Tommy Smith (U.S. Air-Force Pilot – Retired) to layout his book for commercial printing, including the full color cover of the book. I prepared and typeset the book layout for pre-press and publishing from the provided word document files using Adobe In-design. The full book is 415 pages, I setup Adobe In-design to paginate and apply margin per printer specifications.
I worked directly with the author and closely with the printer, publisher and editor to ensure the final artwork and copy was correct with no issues, print run was 1,000 copies with wrap around cover perfect binding. The front, back and spine of the book were designed in four color process layers using Adobe Photoshop. I also created the vector artwork provided to a plate maker for a engraved magnesium printing plate. The book cover has an embossed name along bottom and embossed bullet design on the spine. As a gift I received a few autograph books from author Tommy Smith from the first few that were run off the printing press.
