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So I have been playing around with the different covers (2nd one is not to scale). On screen I swiped this very nice color I wanted to use.

Then when I exported as PDF it gave me such a disturbing color

I exported as a JPG and this got better.

Is this the right way to make sure you get as close as possible to what  you are looking for?

Information Architecture for the WWW

The concept proposed is to design a book series for any design professional interested in the area of User Experience.

Peter Morville has written three quintessential books on the topic. The books are used by user experience professionals but their knowledge should be embrace by all design professionals. The idea is to sell it as a kit.

The design goal is to make these books appealing to visual designers, strategists, producers, entepreneurs in order to position the practice of user experience as more expressive and appealing to all.

The Challenge: O’Reilly books all feel the same independently of who the author is or the topic.

THE BOOKS

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web - Identified by a Bear
Teaches about the principles and the practice of information architecture

Search Patterns - Identified by a Butterfly
Shows how to design and build a search, from a  conceptual perspective, not diving into engineering details. What are the elements of search, how they integrate, insight in how user approach search and the psychology behind it.

Ambient Findability 

This book is about way-finding within information systems, information is found and how pathways to find information are created

CONCEPT
Structure and Form

To make the covers fun, they are still for practitioners, and they are hands on books, but they should feel part of a collection, of a kit for the information designer.

These book should be distinguished as trilogy, they should fun, contemporary, instructional, geeky, how-to but still feel classy. It is a hands-on version of Tufte’s work.

INSPIRATION
Edward Tufte’s books  – They are well designed, they are a quintessential on information design, but these are hand more approachable and sold as a group when attending his conference.

MOOD

http://www.thedieline.com/

http://www.packagingoftheworld.com

http://www.behance.net/?field=66

http://lovelypackage.com/