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DTP: Freelance or in-house? A British book designer examines the issues

DTP: Freelance or in-house? A British book designer examines the issues L O G O S DTP: Freelance or in-house? A British book designer examines the issues Douglas Williamson After graduating in modern lan• guages at Liverpool University, Douglas Williamson returned to Scotland where he studied typog• raphy, printing and book design at Grays School of A r t , Aberdeen. He started his professional career as law books and publicity design• er at Butterworths in London, followed by a brief interlude in general design. In 1982, he returned to educational and refer• ence publishing and has worked for Longman, Collins and Heinemann, where he is current• ly desktop publishing develop• ment manager for the English Language Teaching division. Ten years ago, I saw a Macintosh computer for the first time. It was squatting on a caterer's trolley in t h e design manager's office. N e x t to it was a twin external disk drive with one floppy for the operat• ing system and t h e o t h e t for t h e application pro• gram, which was PageMaker. T h e whole contraption looked like a toy. But n o t fot some. Shortly afterwards, an e m i n e n t http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Logos Brill

DTP: Freelance or in-house? A British book designer examines the issues

Williamson, Douglas
Logos , Volume 7 (3): 219 – Jan 1, 1996
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Brill
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© 1996 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0957-9656
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10.2959/logo.1996.7.3.219
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L O G O S DTP: Freelance or in-house? A British book designer examines the issues Douglas Williamson After graduating in modern lan• guages at Liverpool University, Douglas Williamson returned to Scotland where he studied typog• raphy, printing and book design at Grays School of A r t , Aberdeen. He started his professional career as law books and publicity design• er at Butterworths in London, followed by a brief interlude in general design. In 1982, he returned to educational and refer• ence publishing and has worked for Longman, Collins and Heinemann, where he is current• ly desktop publishing develop• ment manager for the English Language Teaching division. Ten years ago, I saw a Macintosh computer for the first time. It was squatting on a caterer's trolley in t h e design manager's office. N e x t to it was a twin external disk drive with one floppy for the operat• ing system and t h e o t h e t for t h e application pro• gram, which was PageMaker. T h e whole contraption looked like a toy. But n o t fot some. Shortly afterwards, an e m i n e n t

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