by Joel Friedlander | Oct 12, 2010 | Book Design, Self-Publishing
On Monday mornings I look over the book design projects I’m working on to get a sense for how the week will shape up. This is a persistent form of optimism I can’t seem to shake. The week never works out the way I think it will, but I keep doing this just...
by Joel Friedlander | Oct 5, 2010 | Book Design, Book Printing, Self-Publishing
Something that’s obvious to me now is that when you start to participate in social media, you come in contact with a lot of the loose ends from your life. I’m thinking of Facebook. Within a few hours of signing up for Facebook in 2009, I had heard from a...
by Joel Friedlander | Oct 2, 2010 | Book Design
I love producing books for my friends. The collaboration is a terrific way to create something together, and it can be a powerful experience for both of us. This month I completed a long project with an old friend. It was a project that sent us looking all over the...
by Joel Friedlander | Oct 1, 2010 | Book Design, Project Focus, Self-Publishing
Case Study: Unmaking War, Remaking Men: How Empathy Can Reshape Our Politics, Our Soldiers and Ourselves by Kathleen Barry Design brief: Create a complete book design for the important launch of a new imprint. Constraints: None. The author was committed to turning out...
by Joel Friedlander | Sep 29, 2010 | Book Design, Interior Design
(Ed: This post is part of a longer article that originally appeared last year on Self-Publishing Review) Book designers are typographers by necessity, if not by nature. Content may be king, but content is almost always text. Text must be displayed for a reader, either...
by Joel Friedlander | Sep 28, 2010 | Book Design, Interior Design
Have you ever thought about negative space? And no, I don’t mean some metaphysical concept of matter and anti-matter. When book designers talk about “negative space” they are talking primarily about unprinted areas of the page. Any areas that are...
