What is Map & Illustrated Companion?
This is the illustrated matter that makes a world feel real. Endpaper maps, character portraits, heraldry, glossaries, timelines, chapter ornaments and the companion volume that collects it. Map illustration in particular is a craft of its own, balancing geography that holds up against a reader tracing a journey with a style that belongs to the book. We work from your notes and the manuscript, and deliver print and digital versions.
Map & Illustrated Companion sits under Rich Media, drawing on Illustration and Brand Design.
Who needs Map & Illustrated Companion?
You have written a world and readers keep asking where things are in relation to each other. Maybe you are planning a special edition and need something worth the upgrade. Maps and art are also the most shared thing a fantasy or adventure book produces, which makes them marketing as much as decoration.
Often paired with
Interior Layout & Typesetting
Pages that read well for four hundred of them, with the front and back matter handled properly.
View application →Special Edition & Deluxe Packaging
Slipcases, foils, sprayed edges and inserts designed to justify a price that makes sense of the print run.
View application →Cover Design & Series System
A cover that works at thumbnail and a system that keeps book seven looking like book one without repeating it.
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