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Is Interior Book Design a Commodity?

by Joel Friedlander on June 3, 2013 62 Comments

Is Interior Book Design a Commodity? Examines the 4 requirements for a functional interior book design, and asks readers whether they need custom book designs

Filed Under: Book Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book design, book designer, book formatting, book layout, commodity pricing, InDesign, indie publishing

Book Design, Internet Marketing and the Nature of Human Consciousness

by Joel Friedlander on January 28, 2013 12 Comments

Book Design, Internet Marketing and the Nature of Human Consciousness explores the idea that the way our brain and psychology work tells us how to relate to readers and customers

Filed Under: Book Design, Writing Tagged With: book design, book designer, Books, Design And Internet Marketing, Human Consciousness, internet marketing, Reading Books, self publishing

Book Design: Don’t Get Confused By Typeface Point Sizes

by Joel Friedlander on February 1, 2012 23 Comments

Book Design: Don’t Get Confused By Typeface Point Sizes discusses the role of proportion and x-height in relation to book typography

Filed Under: Book Design, Interior Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Bembo, book design, book designer, book layout, Callisto, graphic design, Impact, publishing a book, roman type, type design, typography, x-height

How I'm Going to Book my Blog—Titles & Covers

by Joel Friedlander on February 18, 2011 15 Comments

“We have to have a meeting,” I said to Jill. “What’s up?” “I’ve finished the book, and it still doesn’t have a title. How can I get this book out the door without a title? I can’t do the cover . . .” “Okay, okay. Let’s do it tonight. We’ll just brainstorm it until it’s […]

Filed Under: Book Design, Self-Publishing, Social Media Tagged With: A Self-Publisher's Companion, blogging, book designer, book publishing, self publishing, self-publish a book

Top 10 Tips for Working With A Book Designer

by Joel Friedlander on January 24, 2011 11 Comments

Top 10 Tips for Working With A Book Designer including key procedures to follow when evaluating book interior and cover designers

Filed Under: Book Design, Cover Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book design, book designer, cover design, graphic design, publish a book, self publishing

Book Designer, Book Shepherd, Book Doctor or Book Producer: Which One Do You Need?

by Joel Friedlander on December 8, 2010 11 Comments

Book Designer, Book Shepherd, Book Doctor or Book Producer: Which One Do You Need? Clearing up the confusion about different consulting roles

Filed Under: Self-Publishing Tagged With: author services, book designer, book doctor, book packager, book producer, book shepherd, publish a book, self publishing

7 New Typeface Combinations for Book Design

by Joel Friedlander on October 12, 2010 33 Comments

7 New Typeface Combinations for Book Design including typefaces for seven different genres of books, including Garamond, Janson, Helvetica and many other typefaces.

Filed Under: Book Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: body type, book design, book designer, book publishing, display type, self publishing, typeface combinations, typefaces, typographic design

Book Design: 8 Solutions to the Text Break Dilemma

by Joel Friedlander on June 30, 2010 31 Comments

Book designers use various typographic designs to solve the dilemma of making good-looking pages with text breaks. Here are 8 Solutions that use typographic ornaments, pictographs, bullets and regular type characters, each of which gives a different color to the page.

Filed Under: Book Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book design, book designer, text breaks, type ornaments, typographic design, typography

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

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