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Case Study: Hardcover Adventure Travel

by Joel Friedlander on April 5, 2011 4 Comments

Case Study: Hardcover Adventure Travel. The Boy Behind the Gate by Larry Jacobson, a complex typographic design with a lot of other decorative elements

Filed Under: Book Design, Book Printing, Book Production, Cover Design, Interior Design, Samples, Self-Publishing Tagged With: adventure travel book, binding, book design, Book Printing, book production, casebound books, color inserts, Larry Jacobson, publish a book, self publishing

Self-Publishing Case Study: Nonfiction Instruction

by Joel Friedlander on November 26, 2010 1 Comment

Self-Publishing Case Study: Nonfiction Instruction book using a clean and efficient book design to translate workshop contents to the printed page

Filed Under: Book Design, Samples Tagged With: book design, book page layout, Carol Benson, Payments Systems, publish a book, Scott Loftesness, typography

The Art of Illusion: Creating Book Cover Art for Joanna Penn’s Pentecost

by Joel Friedlander on November 4, 2010 17 Comments

The Art of Illusion: Creating Book Cover Art for Joanna Penn’s Pentecost. Shows how layers of artwork are combined in Photoshop to create the final art, using gradients and blending methods to achieve atmosphere.

Filed Under: Cover Design, Samples, Self-Publishing Tagged With: adobe photoshop, book design, cover design, Joanna Penn, photoshop layers, self publishing

Self-Publishing Case Study: Nonfiction Hybrid

by Joel Friedlander on November 3, 2010 11 Comments

Self-Publishing Case Study: Nonfiction Hybrid combining a narrative with a self-help guidebook. Each part of the book needs its own typographic book design

Filed Under: Book Design, Samples, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book design, Courage and Croissants, cover design, Jean P. Roux, print on demand, self publish book, self publishing, Suzanne Saxe-Roux, Thomson-Shore

Self-Publishing Case Study: Personal Memoir

by Joel Friedlander on September 22, 2010 19 Comments

Self-Publishing Case Study: Personal Memoir The Andrew Street Mob by Brian Marais, a great example of personal self-publishing. Designed for the purposes of the author, it presents a useful model.

Filed Under: Book Design, Book Production, Interior Design, Project Focus, Samples, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Brian Marais, Marais Media International, memoir, personal memoir, self publishing, The Andrew Street Mob

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

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

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

Project Focus: Book Cover Design for The Spirit of the River

by Joel Friedlander on December 18, 2009 4 Comments

The Spirit of the River (affiliate link) is a terrific novel by Diane McCarthy, published by her own Cloudland Press. I met Diane at an all-day publishing workshop run by the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA) where we are both members. After I finished the book I decided to redesign the cover. Now this […]

Filed Under: Cover Design, Samples, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Diane McCarthy, The Spirit of the River

Project Focus: Cover Design with Supplied Artwork for The “And” Principle

by Joel Friedlander on December 11, 2009 4 Comments

This is the second article about dealing with a cover design project with artwork supplied by the client. In the first, I looked at the book cover design process for Chris Finlan’s Not A Fire Exit. This time I’m going to look at the designs prepared for Bill Goldberg’s The “And” Principle. Here is the […]

Filed Under: Book Design, Cover Design, Project Focus, Samples, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Bill E. Goldberg, Book covers, Eve Olitsky, The "And" Principle, Yoga Journal

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