Japanese workbooks
Hiragana/Katakana in 48 minutes is published by Cengage Learning Australia and is designed for Year 7–10 students learning to read and write Japanese.
Nikki M Group provided publishing services to create two workbooks and a series of worksheets.
Our services included:
- project management
- typesetting
- illustration
- creative artwork
- preparation for print.
Typesetting
Nikki M Group typeset 220 pages in total.
Typesetting included:
- design review before production
- initial layout of text and illustrations
- creative artwork and layout design
- correction rounds from authors and editors.
Japanese and English languages were typeset together by:
- creating paragraph and character styles for both languages
- selecting fonts with easy to recognise glyphs
- matching character sizes across both languages
- controlling spacing, alignment and kerning
- using object styles to anchor design elements and rubi text.
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Layout design
The layout design was a creative process where text, graphics and images were arranged to suit a fixed page extent. This was achieved by:
- contexual placement of illustrations within the text
- modifying white space to separate design elements, exercises and lists
- combining typography with image-based design.
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Creating language books
Nikki M Group have experience completing projects in languages including Japanese, French, Indonesian, Arabic, German, Tongan and Italian.
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