Building on my great interest in book design, I was referred by a client to design and produce a book highlighting the author’s African roots and Canadian experience – bridging geography and culture.

Participation on Augustus Oku book design:
• Design/creative direction
• Production
• Ongoing correspondence with client and editor to understand and clarify tasks and deliverables
• Grasp meaning of book’s title and interpret visual solution and offer book cover options for consideration
• Research visual themes and ideas that express the book title’s theme of ‘bridging’ cultures
• Design all pages throughout the 136-page book based on a clean grid, ordered hierarchy of information, with a clear understanding of use of typography and readability
• Ongoing correspondence with editor to review and apply alterations throughout the book’s formatting stage
• Read, search, scan, find & replace, book’s content thoroughly
• Initiate and maintain ongoing correspondence with printer to determine production cost and ensure book’s timely delivery
• Project management from concept and design, through entire production, cycle, to delivery