Photo Book Design & Art Book Design

Photo book design and art book design is a large part of our business.

Art book design and photo book design are design services we provide for artists, galleries, and professional photographers.

Galleries promote art book design and book printing to the artists and photographers they represent. They sell our photo book design and printing services at a substantial profit. Plus, the artists and photographers themselves make a substantial profit. See the examples below.

We provide book design and printing for top East Coast, West Coast, and art galleries in Europe. Star Print Brokers also prints gallery catalogs.

While it is imperative that we work directly with the artists during the layout process, we respect the relationship between galleries and artist or photographer. Visitors to our website will not see very much of this kind of work, if the gallery wants anonymity.

Art book design

Think about top New York, San Francisco, and European art galleries. We provide art book design for galleries, and their artists are always best of the best.

Color reproduction is extremely important. We print what we are given, but also discuss color with clients as needed.

Photo book design

Fine photography and photo book design and printing should be done by the professionals, not the on-demand services. Photographers are showing off their best or most recent work. Poor color reproduction with toner is a problem. Printing with ink on press is the only way to go. Nothing is worse than pages falling out of a poorly bound book. We don’t let that happen.

Why risk your established, or burgeoning career to poor photo book design, bad printing, or insufficient book binding? Our 200-page books are Smyth bound, as are most of our books.

Examples of book costs for an additional revenue stream

First of all, whether you are a gallery owner, an artist or a photographer, you need the finest book design and book printing. Increase your profit and enhance your gallery or clients’ reputation with art our professional photo book design and art book design services.

Photo book design, and art book design and printing

Book design cost is reduced when also printing books with Star Print Brokers. Get the finest in art book design and photography book design services. The cost of a medium difficulty, 200-page art book is $4,000.

Proposed Book Printing specs

• 1,000 copies
• 200-page book on heavy, coated, high-quality paper
• 11 inch x 11 inch book
• process color throughout
• page bleeds
• 1-color printed endpapers
• printed cover wrap
• standard dust jacket
• head and tail bands
• includes shipping and delivery cost to your door*

Artists, Photographers, or Galleries selling to the public

Star Print Brokers Cost (including design cost) $18,000
The retail price per copy is $60. If 1,000 books sell at $60 each, the retail sales are $60,000
Profit $42,000

Galleries selling to their Artists and Photographers

A gallery can sell the art book design, photo book design, and high-quality printing services to the artists or photographers they represent. We handle all the details!

Star Print Brokers Cost (including design cost) $18,000
Gallery charges the Artist or Photographer $30,000 for 1,000 books
Gallery Profit $12,000
The retail price per copy is $60. If 1,000 books sell at $60 each, the retail sales are $60,000
Artist or Photographer Profit $30,000

*Delivery costs depend on location. The above example of printing cost depends on quantity. The more books you print, the lower the unit cost is for printing. The design cost remains the same.

More custom options are available

Star Print Brokers is well-known for providing many custom options. Our estimate is for a 200-page book, but the number of pages and page size will change the estimate.

Do you want to add a foil stamp, raised lettering, a cloth cover wrap, or French fold dust jacket? How about a ribbon marker or a slip case? Would you like each of the books to have their own printed bumper box? All of these things and more can be added, at an additional cost. They are suggestions as part of our art book design and photo book design services.

More Profit

Most of the clients that we work with have a following, whether it be for their gallery or their work. Books can be signed at gallery exhibitions, or signed copies to keep on hand to go with a sale.

If you are a building a career, a high-quality book acts as your business card, and can open doors for your continuing success.

What if the average art lover cannot afford your work, but can afford a book?

Add a cloth cover wrap and cloth slip case, both with a full color tip-on image. Add a tip-in vellum introduction sheet. These custom touches add just a  little to the cost, but you may then put a retail cost of $100 or $125 on the book! It is all part of our art book design, photo book design, and book printing services.

Less Profit

Be sure to account for any discounted sales, such as selling on Amazon, or if there are any distributor costs. Are book mailing and handling changes added in, like a shipping box or bubble wrap mailer? We can also manufacture and deliver books in individual bumper boxes.

The only way to accurately estimate your profit, is to provide us the specifications for your books, and we will provide you a quote. You are under no obligation! Art book design and photo book design may increase in cost, if the degree of difficultly increases. Send us a sample of what you want, and we will let you know if it is over our estimated cost.

We suggest that if you are a gallery owner acting as your own publisher, that we help you develop a design style and specifications that we carry through to all titles that you will print with us.

We use Adobe InDesign for our professional art book design and photo book design services. Another important thing to know about Star Print Brokers is that we began in business in 1999. We are in Bellevue, Washington, doing business internationally.