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Project Focus: Dancing on the River by Mark Susnow

by Joel Friedlander on June 3, 2010 1 Comment

The cover and interior design of a self-help book by a life coach is shown in sample cover and interior design to follow the design process. Mark Susnow worked for almost a year to bring Dancing on the River into production, and the result shows the work that went into it.

Filed Under: Book Design, Cover Design, Interior Design, Samples, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book cover design, book design, Mark Susnow, self publishing

The Typographer’s Curse: Automatic Leading

by Joel Friedlander on May 6, 2010 7 Comments

Automatic leading is about as satisfying as a robot dog. Increase or decrease leading to make your document look more professional.

Filed Under: Book Design, Interior Design Tagged With: Adobe InDesign, book publishing, computer typesetting, font, leading, self publishing, typeface, typesetting, typography

Project Focus: Exotic Life by Lisa Alpine

by Joel Friedlander on April 21, 2010 10 Comments

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 interior of her new book, Exotic Life: Laughing Rivers, Dancing Drums […]

Filed Under: Book Design, Interior Design, Project Focus, Samples, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Carla King, Exotic Life, Lisa Alpine, self publishing, short story

Book Page Layout for a Long Narrative

by Joel Friedlander on March 9, 2010 16 Comments

One of the projects I’m working on is a memoir of growing up in Johannesburg, South Africa. It’s a very personal but fascinating look at childhood in another time and place, and I’ll talk more about this book when it’s published, but it’s a great example of setting up a straight narrative book page layout. […]

Filed Under: Book Design, Interior Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book design, book designer, book page layout, page layout, self-publish a book, typography

Apple iPad Typography: Fonts We Actually Want

by Joel Friedlander on March 1, 2010 39 Comments

We haven’t seen much of the Apple iPad yet, and the screen shots we have seen show that the fonts for the Apple iPad are perhaps not all they might be. What do we know? Apple, as far as I know, has issued only the one press release on the day of the product’s announcement, […]

Filed Under: Book Design, Interior Design Tagged With: Apple iPad, digital typography, fonts, graphic design, publishing, typeface, typesetting, typography

4 Incredible Free Sources for Photos to Use in Your Book or Blog

by Joel Friedlander on February 26, 2010 58 Comments

There’s been an ongoing discussion in the comments to the post on Fair Use and Copyright, and it seemed like a good time to explore some of the resources readily available that can supply images for use in blog posts or books without fear of infringing someone else’s copyright. The most common explanation I hear […]

Filed Under: Cover Design, Interior Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Creative Commons Attribution, find free photos, Flickr, Stock.xchang, Wikimedia Commons

Project Focus: The Poetry of the Typography of Poetry

by Joel Friedlander on February 24, 2010 9 Comments

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 pleasure of helping my friend […]

Filed Under: Book Design, Interior Design, Samples Tagged With: book typography, David Whyte, Gary Rosenthal, poetry book design, self-publish a book

3 Great Typeface Combinations You Can Use in Your Book

by Joel Friedlander on February 19, 2010 59 Comments

The typefaces we use for books are a real contradiction. They can be so quiet you just don’t notice them. But if you enlarge the letters, you can see right away that they are full of idiosyncrasies and flourishes. Display typefaces, on the other hand, announce themselves to the reader in no uncertain terms. In […]

Filed Under: Book Design, Interior Design Tagged With: book fonts, book typography, font combinations

Apple iPad: E-Book Reading, Kindle-Killing, Business-Saving Product of the Century?

by Joel Friedlander on January 28, 2010

I have to say that watching today’s launch by Apple of the new iPad was quite entertaining. I picked Gizmodo which had a team of four or five people live blogging from the hall and taking photos of the visuals Steve Jobs was using in his presentation. You really have to admire not only the […]

Filed Under: Interior Design Tagged With: Apple, Aptara, fonts, Gizmodo, Henry Baum, iPad

Readability and a Lifelong Lesson for Beginning Book Designers

by Joel Friedlander on January 25, 2010 6 Comments

Despite the explosive growth of audio and video on the internet, content on the web is still largely text. And reading online can be a difficult experience. I don’t know about you, but some of the sites I read online—blogs, content sites, news sites, article sites—are really difficult. Small san serif type in grey on […]

Filed Under: Book Design, Interior Design Tagged With: Arc90, book design, Readability, typography

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