Diana Ghazzawi

53 Monroe Street
Website: www.wordreams.com
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Professional Experience

I'm the rare book designer whose publishing experience goes beyond design, having worked in several book production roles, including Director of Production and Managing Editor. I've edited, proofread, indexed, and designed and laid out countless books, in addition to supervising the entire production process at small publishing houses. This broad experience allows me to provide clients with excellent guidance for all their production needs, and to design and construct books with the experience of someone who has seen, done, and managed it all. I pride myself in creating clean, elegant books and having every detail perfectly in place. Most importantly, I know that book design is more than a nice-looking page; good design is about function—it has to accommodate all of the manuscript's needs, it has to print well, and it has to be effortless to read. Please visit my website and portfolio at www.wordreams.com.

Expertise

Designer
11 Years
Production (print)
11 Years
Editor
11 Years

Specialty

Business (general)
11 Years
Other, Specify
11 Years
Politics
5 Years

Industries


Book Publishing Trade/B2B
11 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

11 Years

Technical Skills

Book Cover Design, Book Interior Design, Editing

Foreign Language Skills

Fluent in Arabic, conversational in French

Computer Skills

Adobe Creative Suite, specifically InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat

Showcase

Book Covers

Photography book of Syria before the current war
Political anthology
Political anthology
Award-winning ethnographic cookbook
Graphic novel
Scientific literature
Shakespeare play
Shakespeare play
Historical cookbook
Classic literature
Classic literature
African-American literature