by Joel Friedlander | Jul 30, 2010 | Reviews, Social Media
“De gustibus non est disputandum,” the Romans decreed. There’s no disputing taste. I’ve decided to agree with them. Why? Because I enjoy reviewing books that are helpful to writers, self-publishers and people interested in typography and...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 24, 2010 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
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...
