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I have produced reading, mathematics textbooks for Quarasan, Ligature, Silver Burdett Ginn, Houghton-Mifflin, Scott Foresman, Preface, PiperStudiosInc, and McDougall-Littell.

Silver Burdett Ginn's "Literature Works"

SBG had contracted Ligature to produce this text. I was fortunate to work on this project with a great team of designers and editors led by one brilliant editor named Ernestine Giesecke. She drew editorial input from each member of the team regardless of specialty. She was also eager to learn the technical side of publishing, and I was happy to show her. By the end of the first phase of the project, she was doing as much of the desktop publishing as I was of the editing. Though the project as a whole was fraught with crippling indecision, our team (one of six such teams) made every deadline. Though our team had been charged originally with composing and producing two chapters, Ernestine and I were selected along with a few from other teams to finalize the entire book. It was such a difficult project to carry off. But I'm proud to have been part of it.

I had no hand in the design or production of this cover.

Scott Foresman's "Literature"

At Scott Foresman, the production department runs like clockwork. Jim Byrne is one of the biggest reasons for this. He runs a highly systematized production process that produces significant measurable progress, and almost always gets the staff home in time for dinner. "Literature" was the first of many projects with Scott Foresman, and my only in-house project for them. It was a pleasure to find myself with plenty of free time when the work day was done.

Inspired by Jim's wealth of processes, I developed several methods for PhotoShop production of certain layout elements during this project that ensured quick and consistent production.

This cover is not my design. I helped produce several other covers in this series however.