Projects
SELECTED EDITORIAL WORK
Selected editorial projects representing long-form publishing work developed as coherent design systems under real production conditions.
Production Intelligence
Design. Systems. Time Pressure.
Production Intelligence examines the point where design decisions become irreversible.
This section focuses on real-world publishing conditions — time pressure, production constraints, material limits, legal responsibility, and system failures — where mistakes are no longer aesthetic but structural, financial, or factual. The examples shown here are not about style or preference, but about consequences: what happens when design choices meet printing, distribution, and use in the real world.
Experience
EDITORIAL DESIGN UNDER PRODUCTION PRESSURE
Experience in publishing is not measured in years. It is defined by responsibility for decisions that must hold once production begins.
Production Environments
My work spans publishing systems where layout decisions directly affect cost, logistics, and production stability:
- High-volume textbook production with fixed print signatures
- Licensed international co-productions with strict technical standards
- Complex typographic books with non-linear structures
- Multilingual publishing systems across multiple scripts
- Children’s books with color, safety, and reproduction constraints
- Encyclopedic and reference works requiring structural consistency
Responsibilities Beyond Design
My role regularly extends beyond visual design into production-critical decision-making:
- Pagination control under fixed production limits
- Typography optimization to reduce page count without loss of readability
- Pre-press diagnostics and recovery of rejected files
- Stabilization of multilingual layouts across editions
- Color behavior control for long and repeat print runs
- Anticipation of press-side problems before they occur
When Failure Is Not an Option
Some projects allow testing and correction. Others do not.
In those environments, experience means knowing exactly where creative freedom ends
and production law begins.
Experience is rarely visible in the layout.
It becomes visible only when nothing goes wrong.
About
DESIGN AS RESPONSIBILITY. PRODUCTION AS REALITY.
Editorial design focused on structure, typography, and decisions that must hold once production begins.
Goran Skakic, book production specialist and founder of Tamigo Graphics.
I design systems that survive real-world production.
Design as Responsibility
My work is grounded in the understanding that design decisions carry consequences. Once a book enters production, mistakes are no longer aesthetic — they are structural, financial, and logistical.
This perspective was formed through decades of working on books that had to be printed, shipped, localized, licensed, and reproduced — often under constraints where there was no room for correction.
What Defines My Approach
- Design that anticipates production, not just presentation
- Typography treated as structure, not decoration
- Respect for constraints as a design tool
- Clarity over visual noise
- Decisions based on systems, not trends
Working Philosophy
I collaborate best with publishers, editors, and production teams who value precision, long-term stability, and calm problem-solving.
My role is not to impress, but to make sure that nothing breaks — neither visually, technically, nor in production.
Good design attracts attention.
Reliable design earns trust.
References
SELECTED FEEDBACK FROM PUBLISHING COLLABORATIONS
Observations and evaluations provided by editors and publishers following completed projects.
Marjory Bancroft
Director and owner of Cross Cultural Communications, Marilend, United States...however, now comes my biggest problem, the one I have been agonizing over for a week: you are the designer who has given me the biggest headache of my life. Why? Your design is too beautiful to turn into two-thirds b&w pages and I am not rich enough to swallow the cost of all color. When I asked for you to make a beautiful book I did not see the trouble I was making for myself when you succeeded!!!! To choose which pages to turn b&w is like killing your babies.
Madeline Zech Ruiz
Author of a cult book "I Married a Dick Doctor Who Fixes Woman Too", McAlen, Texas, US"Goran, is head and shoulders above the rest when it comes to top quality work and total professionalism. His attention to detail and timely delivery of a finished project should be the standard for others to live up to. Goran was fantastic to work with and his work speaks for itself!!!!"
Etan Boritzer
President of Veronica Lane Books, LA, CaliforniaWe love working with Goran Skakic and his team! Goran has provided professional, reliable and creative design work for our print books, ebooks, promotional materials and website. His team works quickly and they are really cheerful people, happy to make changes until all is perfect! I recommend Goran to publishers, web developers, commercial and industrial clients seeking expert design work!
Tania Skandalaki
Senior Editor Southeast Europe at DeAgostini, Athens, GreeceDuring the years of our kind cooperation, Mr Skakic was working as DTP packager, being responsible for the most important publishing projects in Balkans. We had an excellent and creative collaboration, as Mr Skakic combines knowledge, education and professionalism. Consistency, integrity and team work are the main characteristics of his professional profile. I am sure that the uniqueness and the authenticity of his character, as a personality and as a colleague, but also the substantial professional experience will be a stepping stone for even further achievements in the future.