The Founder's Notebook
Building a company in public
The Founder's Notebook
Building a company in public
Business
A founder book. Grid-led cover borrowing from the notebook it is named after.
The approach
Business books are usually designed to look like every other business book, which is a strange decision for a category that sells on the distinctiveness of the person writing it. The cover is built on a visible baseline grid — a notebook rule — with the title set in the sans used across the house identity rather than the expected serif. The interior carries a wide margin for pull quotes and marginal notes, which is how these books are actually read.
Specification
- Format
- Hardback, 140 × 216mm
- Extent
- 256 pages
- Text face
- Lyon Text, 10/15pt with sans marginalia
- Paper
- 80gsm white bookwove
- Finish
- Printed board, no jacket, spot UV on rule
Services demonstrated
- Ghostwriting
- Developmental editing
- Cover design
- Interior design
- Print production
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The Founder's Notebook
Building a company in public