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...
by Joel Friedlander | Nov 26, 2010 | Book Design, Samples
Case Study: Payments Systems in the U.S.: A Guide for the Payments Professional by Carol Coye Benson and Scott Loftesness Design Brief: The authors are partners in the Glenbrook Consulting Group and give a popular workshop on how the payments systems work. They wanted...
by Joel Friedlander | Nov 4, 2010 | Cover Design, Samples, Self-Publishing
I just got finished taping a video interview with Joanna Penn of The Creative Penn blog. In it Joanna revealed the winner of the poll she conducted on her blog last week to pick the final design for the cover of her upcoming thriller, Pentecost. When she conducted the...
by Joel Friedlander | Nov 3, 2010 | Book Design, Samples, Self-Publishing
Case Study: Courage and Croissants: Inspiring Joyful Living, A Story and Life Guidebook, by Suzanne Saxe-Roux, Ed.D. and Jean P. Roux, Ph.D. Design brief: Create a hybrid book design for a manuscript that is two-thirds narrative, and one-third a sort of self-help...
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...
by Joel Friedlander | Jun 3, 2010 | Book Design, Cover Design, Interior Design, Samples, Self-Publishing
Almost exactly a year ago I went to the all-day Get Published! workshop run by the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association. I met a lot of people that day, and talked at length with Mark Susnow about a book he planned to write and publish. He was thinking of...
