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Case Study: Hardcover Adventure Travel

by Joel Friedlander | Apr 5, 2011 | Book Design, Book Printing, Book Production, Cover Design, Interior Design, Samples, Self-Publishing

Case Study: The Boy Behind the Gate by Larry Jacobson Design Brief: The author and his partner were the first gay couple to sail around the world. Larry, a former marketing executive, made a complete break with his former life and spent seven years traveling around...

Self-Publishing Case Study: Nonfiction

by Joel Friedlander | Dec 10, 2010 | Book Design, Book Production, Cover Design, Interior Design, Self-Publishing

Case Study: Music, Healing and Harmony: How Music Can Improve Your Health, Enhance Your Brain Power and Help You Relax by Sally Fletcher Design Brief: The author is a harpist who has been selling CDs of her music as well as a book she self-published a number of years...
Pagination Styles: Shall We Kill the Widows & Orphans?

Pagination Styles: Shall We Kill the Widows & Orphans?

by Joel Friedlander | Oct 20, 2010 | Book Construction Blueprint, Book Design, Interior Design, Self-Publishing

In Brief: In book design we have to decide which style of pagination to choose. This article presents both so you can make an informed choice. People often seem to divide themselves neatly into two camps: shirts versus skins, innies versus outies, grow it out versus...

Beautiful Details, Beautiful Books: How to Recognize Oldstyle Typefaces

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...

Do You Know These 5 Ways to Use Negative Space in Your Book Design?

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...

Self-Publishing Case Study: Personal Memoir

by Joel Friedlander | Sep 22, 2010 | Book Design, Book Production, Interior Design, Project Focus, Samples, Self-Publishing

Case Study: The Andrew Street Mob by Brian Marais Design brief: Create a book design and production method to enable an author to publish a personal memoir. Constraints: The Andrew Street Mob was not designed to be a commercial project, so the economics of the...
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