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Project Focus: Interior Design for Business Mensch by Noah Alper

by Joel Friedlander on October 1, 2009 1 Comment

Books come in all different shapes and sizes and with many different purposes. Book design takes these diverse uses into account.

Recently we designed Noah Alper’s Business Mensch, which combines memoir with business advice drawn from the author’s career as an entrepreneur. Along the way Noah tells numerous fascinating stories about the ups and downs in his own life, and passes along a bit of wisdom from his Jewish cultural background.

Determining the Design Needs

The manuscript was pretty straightforward, and perfectly clean, thanks to the incredibly high level work of PeopleSpeak, Sharon Goldinger’s terrific team of editors. There was one level of subheads, a section of photos and epigraphs at the heads of each chapter.


Note: These are clickable images that will display a full-size page if you’d like to get a closer look.

Here are the three designs that emerged from the design process. Variation one, with the Minion and Lithos fonts:

Variation two, with Poppl-Laudatio and Janson text:

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And variation three, with Electra and Bernhard Modern:

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In the end, the design that was used in the book was a combination of elements, adjusted to bring the parts into balance:

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Filed Under: Book Design, Interior Design, Project Focus, Samples Tagged With: Adobe Garamond, Bernhard Modern, Business Mensch, Janson text, Lithos, Minion, Noah Alper, Poppl-Laudatio

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  1. MoD Real SG says

    November 11, 2017 at 4:23 am

    Thanks a friend of mine for sharing this article for me. As an interior design enthusiast, this information is very helpful to me. Thank you.

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