Editing by Design: The Classic Guide to Word-and-Picture Communication

Editing by Design is a PDF digital edition by Jan V. White and Alex W. White. This completely revised fourth edition explores editing and design as connected parts of word-and-picture communication.

The digital format is suitable for reading on compatible devices and apps. After purchase, the PDF is available for instant download.

Written for art directors, editors, designers, and students, the book connects editorial purpose with graphic decisions. Its principles address both print publication and online work.

Book Overview

Editing by Design is a design guide focused on how words, images, space, type, and color work together. The book presents editing and designing as interconnected activities rather than separate tasks.

Its four sections cover the editing process, the design process, editing information, and design information. The fourth edition is described as a reinvention of a book first published in 1974, with later editions adding scope and content.

What You’ll Discover Inside

• Ways to think about editing and edit for readers.
• Ways to think about design and design for readers.
• Teamwork and editing guardrails, including inducement, originality, and checking.
• Documents, sequentiality, signals, covers, and contents listings.
• Space, columns and grids, spacing and margins, contrast, and symmetry and asymmetry.
• Display type, pullquotes, breakouts, captions, imagery, diagrams, and color.
• A glossary, index, colophon, and biographies.

Why This Book Matters

The preface describes the original book as the first book on magazine making to propose editing and designing as interconnected activities. It also explains that the book’s fundamental truths of visual communication remain independent of a particular medium.

That perspective gives the volume relevance for readers working with print publications as well as online editing and design. Its stated audience includes art directors, editors, designers, and students.

Book Details

Device Compatibility

This product is a digital download, not a physical book. There is no physical shipping, and access is available after purchase.

Read the PDF with an appropriate Kindle app, tablet, desktop, mobile device, or compatible reading app. Device features can vary by application, and printing is not promised.

FAQ

How quickly can I access the book?
Access is available after purchase, with the PDF provided for instant download.

Will I receive a physical copy?
No. This is a digital PDF download, so there is no physical shipping.

Which devices can open the file?
The PDF can be read with an appropriate Kindle app, tablet, desktop, mobile device, or compatible reading app.

Download this digital edition of Editing by Design for reference on editorial and graphic design practice.

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