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Cara Holland's avatar

As someone who is a visual storyteller and not a book cover designer, but who has had a book cover request land in her inbox this week, this made me laugh and terrified me in equal measures 🙈

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Nathaniel Roy's avatar

Hehe. You can do it!

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Cara Holland's avatar

Optimistic and kind of you to say so. I’ll no doubt be sharing (crying and asking for wisdom) further down the line.

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Nathaniel Roy's avatar

Happy to help if I can 🙂

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Cara Holland's avatar

I certainly appreciate that supportive kindness (and promise not to abuse the offer). Like all work requests that land in my inbox I try and keep it at arms length until it’s actually a legit job so for now I will be reading your archive and trying to absorb the wisdom you’ve already shared whilst waiting to see what materialises 🙂

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Nathaniel Roy's avatar

I appreciate that! And I think that's a good mentality for almost-projects. I've certainly been burned by getting too excited about something that didn't end up materializing.

Thanks for reading—I hope it helps!

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Janae Carlee's avatar

As a designer myself, this is incredible.

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Nathaniel Roy's avatar

Thanks Janae! It was fun to write.

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anirustar's avatar

was wondering if u know anymore resources on kerning? in uni for graphic design and i have somewhat mastered photoshop but indesign is just so difficult to me🥲

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Nathaniel Roy's avatar

Here’s a game to help you practice and learn kerning 🙂

https://type.method.ac/

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☕ KimBoo York's avatar

This was hilarious and in some strange ways very relatable, as a freelance writer -- I guess a gig is a gig is a gig! LOL!

SUPER EXCITED for this new series, let me tell ya'!

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Nathaniel Roy's avatar

Ha! I'm glad to hear it was relatable :)

I'm excited too. I think you're gonna love it.

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray's avatar

Yup, this all checks out. Glad I’m not the only one who finds printers’ templates utterly baffling! Love how every single one will, without fail, introduce some new bit of obscure/made-up terminology that you’ll have to google.

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Nathaniel Roy's avatar

Oh that makes me so happy to hear, haha. I had one mechanical recently where the AD admitted the template was not only confusing, but flat out wrong.

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Ashley Holstrom's avatar

Love to see this peek inside the process!

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Lauren Rhoades's avatar

Love the notebook shots! So fun to peek inside the creative process.

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Nathaniel Roy's avatar

They are often far more ugly than this spread 🙂

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