Well, I've done it. I've made it to the bookshelf at WalMart. While doing my regular book browsing at WalMart I spotted my pirate magnet book this morning right next to Johnny Depp himself (well, his picture on a book for the new pirates movie - which I'm going to have to watch about 3 more time to get what it's about). When I picked it up and looked at the magnets...ut-oh!


I was instructed to add a bleed around each magnet for the die-cut (I even provided the dine lines). I guess during the layout phase they went with a white border forgetting about the bleeds. I'm surprised this wasn't spotted at the proofing stage. It's very obvious if you know what you're looking at. I flipped the book over where there are pictures of the magnets, and same thing, the rough bleeds show. I hope they caught it for the next print run!

I have a two children's books where fonts were overlooked in the proffing stage. Apparently they didn't have the screen font loaded:

This one is a little hard to see from the scan. the cover uses the same font and it looks as it should.

This one spread used the same font throughout the artwork. Such a shame. It was beautifully illustrated but the font mistake overpowers it.

Sorry, it's the designer in me that finds mistakes. We live and we learn!