by Joel Friedlander | Apr 21, 2010 | Book Design, Interior Design, Project Focus, Samples, Self-Publishing
Travel writing, never out of fashion, seems to be pretty popular at the moment. And when you get great travel writing imbued with personality, you’ve got something special. That’s why I was really pleased to be called on by Lisa Alpine to design the...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 24, 2010 | Book Design, Interior Design, Samples
One of the great pleasures of being a book designer is getting to work on books by my friends. There’s a unique form of collaboration that happens when I work with someone I know well, and the book usually shows the result of this process. In 1999 I had the...
by Joel Friedlander | Dec 18, 2009 | Cover Design, Samples, Self-Publishing
The Spirit of the River (affiliate link) is a terrific novel by Diane McCarthy, published by her own Cloudland Press. I met Diane at an all-day publishing workshop run by the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA) where we are both members. After I...
by Joel Friedlander | Dec 11, 2009 | Book Design, Cover Design, Project Focus, Samples, Self-Publishing
This is the second article about dealing with a cover design project with artwork supplied by the client. In the first, I looked at the book cover design process for Chris Finlan’s Not A Fire Exit. This time I’m going to look at the designs prepared for...
by Joel Friedlander | Nov 24, 2009 | Book Design, Cover Design, Samples, Self-Publishing
Over the last few months I’ve designed two book covers that involved artwork supplied by the author. This is a slightly unusual situation and forces you to think in creative ways. If your client hands you a piece of artwork and says, “I love this! I want...
by Joel Friedlander | Nov 4, 2009 | Book Design, Interior Design, Samples, Self-Publishing
This new novel by first-time author Christopher Finlan is an exciting read. Chris wanted a clean page layout that let readers really enjoy the text. In designing novels particularly, it’s important that none of the design elements used to add visual interest to...
