About KW Book Design

Who I am

I am Klaas Wolterstorff, sole proprietor of KW Book Design. After over thirty years’ working for a publisher, I’m now working as an independent designer and publishing manager.

My Experience

I have worked in publishing for over thirty years, at Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. While most of my experience has been in design and production, I also worked some years as a proofreader and editor. I never leave that experience behind.

For most of my time at Eerdmans I was both the sole book interior designer and also production manager. During my career, Eerdmans developed a reputation for quality book design and high production values. As production manager I was also responsible for print specifications and management, including all quoting, ordering, and quality assurance with a variety of printers.

What We do

Our specialty is book interior design, ranging from poetry and trade books to academic titles, textbooks, and reference works. We can provide a full range of publishing services from text design, correction, and production to full project management, including photo research and coordination with editors, cartographers, cover designers, printers, and eBook developers.

Our goal is to provide the best and most suitable design for each client, whether you’re an individual author or an established publisher. In each case, we’ll review the nature of the project as well as the intended audience before we discuss recommended solutions.

In the production of your project we will prepare the cleanest possible files for both print and electronic production. We style each project completely with consistent and logical markup.

And, finally, we can manage each project through the manufacturing process, to the point of delivery of well-designed, well-produced, and well-printed books.