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Self-Publishing Basics: Book Pagination For Fun and Profit

by Joel Friedlander on October 2, 2009 24 Comments

The post continues the series begun in an earlier post, and is Part of the Book Construction Blueprint, which provides reliable guidance to anyone taking on the construction of a book that must conform to generally accepted practice. Having looked at the Parts of the Book, we have already imposed a sequence or order on […]

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Book Design, Interior Design, Self Publishing Basics Tagged With: book design, folios, pagination

Project Focus: Interior Design for Business Mensch by Noah Alper

by Joel Friedlander on October 1, 2009 1 Comment

Books come in all different shapes and sizes and with many different purposes. Book design takes these diverse uses into account. Recently we designed Noah Alper’s Business Mensch, which combines memoir with business advice drawn from the author’s career as an entrepreneur. Along the way Noah tells numerous fascinating stories about the ups and downs […]

Filed Under: Book Design, Interior Design, Project Focus, Samples Tagged With: Adobe Garamond, Bernhard Modern, Business Mensch, Janson text, Lithos, Minion, Noah Alper, Poppl-Laudatio

Self-Publishing Basics: An Unabridged List of the Parts of a Book

by Joel Friedlander on September 29, 2009 60 Comments

The history of book printing goes back to the first Bibles pulled sheet by sheet off Johannes Gutenberg’s presses in Mainz, Germany in the late fifteenth century. The first books were attempts to replicate the handwritten books of the time, which varied widely. Over the centuries publishers have gradually established conventions about the way books […]

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Book Design, Editorial, Interior Design, Self Publishing Basics Tagged With: Chicago Manual of Style, Gutenberg, parts of a book

Does Book Design Really Matter?

by Joel Friedlander on September 28, 2009 24 Comments

Did you ever see the movie “Deception” that came out in 2008? No? It starred Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman and Michelle Williams. The cast alone should have made it a hit, but it bombed, critics hated it and audiences ignored it in spectacular numbers. Despite Hollywood’s addiction to stars and hype over content, the dirty […]

Filed Under: Book Design, Book Reviews, Interior Design, Self Publishing Basics, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book design, Dan Holloway, Denise Hamilton, interior design, Jane Friedman, Lyn Miller-Lachmann, Morris Rosenthal, Walt Shiel

Self-Publishing Basics: 5 Layout Mistakes that Make You Look Unprofessional

by Joel Friedlander on September 17, 2009 49 Comments

Years ago my wife and I went to a wedding at a very prestigious “club” here in San Francisco. My wife looked gorgeous as always, and I wore a very nice light gray English wool suit that seemed suitably low-key. When we walked in the door I realized that I “hadn’t received the memo” because […]

Filed Under: Book Design, Book Production, Interior Design, Self Publishing Basics, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book page layout, design errors

Project Focus: Interior Design for The Age of Participation

by Joel Friedlander on September 16, 2009 2 Comments

One of the first books I produced for Berrett-Koehler Publishers in San Francisco was The Age of Participation by Patricia McLagan and Christo Nel. The overarching framework of the story of the movement of politics toward participative governance required a theme to hold the parts together yet show their relationship to the whole. These part-opening […]

Filed Under: Book Design, Interior Design, Project Focus, Samples Tagged With: Berrett-Koehler, Patricia McLagan, The Age of Participation, typography

5 Favorite Fonts for Interior Book Design

by Joel Friedlander on August 31, 2009 409 Comments

There’s no bigger decision you make in designing a book than picking the body typeface. A book by its nature is a long reading experience, and as book publishers we want our books to be as easy to read as possible while communicating the author’s intent.

Filed Under: Book Design, Interior Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book publishing, design, typography

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