This RFP seeks a provider of freelance book design services. The selected vendor will evaluate the typographical requirements of manuscripts and make design choices to create visually appealing books, considering the estimated page count and allocated budget. Responsibilities include creating suitable cover designs for scholarly and trade books and submitting sample pages of interior layouts for review and approval by the press.

Additional duties involve writing detailed specifications to guide the typesetter in setting up type and illustration placement. The designer will answer typesetter queries about design specifications and review sample pages provided by the typesetter. The vendor will provide color PDFs of jacket and cover sketches for press approval and deliver print-ready application files for jackets and covers in Adobe InDesign, using a Macintosh platform.