Creating Design Magic
"For the interior, I want to do justice to the text: I want it to be readable, with text and art in sync with each other," she says. A book's interior, notes Burger, is an intimate space "that needs to strike a balance, to enhance the subject without overwhelming the content or distracting the reader." The learning curve for the designer is slow, Burger notes, since a book's production cycle typically spans a year or more. When she finally sees the completed product, she may learn, for example, that a page design that was perfect as a single layout looks different in a trimmed, bound book. "A finished book is a three-dimensional object, and the design changes when viewed as a sequence of pages," Burger points out. "That's one of the reasons why making books is challenging--with each project ... I know that I can make a better book than the last time."