Welcome to Chinook
This site, though it lacks flashy animation and scripts to distract viewers, should answer your questions and give you a sense of what Chinook can do. We have designed flashy websites in the past, but this site is about books, paper and images.
Have a book that needs a designer? Please use the form on the contact page to describe your project.
Free Samples!
Take a look at the Chinook Design portfolio on tumblr.com: http://chinook.tumblr.com
Kind Words
Besim S. Hakim's Sidi Bou Sa'id: Structure and Form of a Mediterranean Village was several months in the making. It has almost 200 photographs and perhaps 100 maps and plans. He wrote: "The Sidi Bou Sa'id book project that was assigned to Olaf was very complex. It took a number of months working on proofs until it was finished. During that process Olaf was always responsive to suggestions and willing to make changes without any hesitation. If you have a complex project and you are bewildered on how to tackle it, then let Olaf Nelson do it for you and you will be very happy with the results." See the cover and some pages here (click on "large" in the bar at the top of the page to see more detail).
Ellen Kenney, author of Power and Patronage in Medieval Syria was ecstatic when her book arrived: "Wow! I found the package waiting on my doorstep when I got home yesterday. I'm stunned at what a handsome volume it has turned out to be, thanks to all your labors. I'm just bursting with pride, and I hope you are as well. It's especially amazing to see what you've been able to do with the motley assortment of images that I provided you! Somehow, they all look more uniform and slick than I imagined they ever could. I've begun to receive queries about how the book can be obtained. The Supreme Council of Antiquities in Cairo has emailed to ask how to get it! Thank you for all your interest, effort and patience!"
What's Chinook?
Chinook Design puts type and images on paper. We try to do it in interesting and pleasing ways, and we try not to repeat ourselves.
- We create books and journals: typesetting, layout, indexing, figures and illustrations, covers, dust jackets, etc.
- We are not prejudiced. We will take on any kind of book project: fiction, poetry, science, history, dissertation, atlas, cookbook ...
- We also do periodicals: scholarly journals, magazines, articles, editorial workflow
- We beautify CDs, DVDs and packaging: labels, inserts, booklets, boxes, containers
- We promote: posters, signs, fliers, brochures, cards, calendars, invitations
- We help you communicate: reports, pamphlets, documentation, letterhead
- We transform author manuscripts: give us your document and we'll turn it into a fully-formatted book or article that exactly meets your publisher's specifications.
Chinook Design has been working with books, periodicals and other printed material for years. We have wide-ranging expertise, but we have not done everything. We will be honest if you ask us to do something outside our experience, and we will not use your project as a learning experiment. We will try to win your project only if we believe we can do it right and produce something extraordinary. We are trustworthy. We do not take jobs just to take jobs. For us, it is better to produce nothing than to produce something weak.
Read more about our services here.
