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 | Mar 9, 2010 | Book Design, Interior Design, Self-Publishing
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...
by Joel Friedlander | Mar 1, 2010 | Book Design, Interior Design
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...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 26, 2010 | Cover Design, Interior Design, Self-Publishing
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...
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 | Feb 19, 2010 | Book Design, Interior Design
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...
