I've been doing my dissertation for my final year at university and book design is something I've been learning about. It a lot harder than you'd think going into a project. The balance between text, image and white space is tricky business. Clarity of the text is important but so are smaller details that make all the difference to the reader. I'll post up some of my own work when I get it back from the printers!
In this post are a random selection of double page spreads that I've collected over the last year or so. Finding good examples of designers/studios that have been able to display text and image together well can be inspiring and help you to see what is good and what is not so good.