mise-en-page

Mise-en-page The First of May is nothing like your everyday book. It is not portable (in fact I can only imagine this book being used on a table). Each right page has a photogravure where the text sits inside a frame within a decorated frame. The left side of the page is always blank. Leaf … Read more

Pet Blog Post #2: mise-en-page/mise-en-texte As explored in my earlier blog post, Winnie-The-Pooh is a smaller book – perhaps not pocket-size, but certainly easy to hold in one’s hands, especially the hands of a child. A given page is 18.75cm in length and 12.5cm in width. The text is written in one column per page. … Read more

Let’s start with mise-en-page, and shift up our font! Mise-en-page or page format refers to how your text sits on the page. You should write a careful, detailed description of this. Even if you have an apparently neutral page… …in reality there are several elements creating that experience of neutrality. Neutrality is a convention produced … Read more