by Joel Friedlander | Jan 5, 2011 | Book Design, Self-Publishing
When you sit down to design a book, there are organizational tasks you have to address right at the beginning. Getting your raw materials organized and making sure your workflow will produce an efficient publishing process are important enough to spend some quality...
by Joel Friedlander | Sep 30, 2010 | Social Media
I was innocently going through my inbox yesterday when the following email from a friend popped up: matthew carter has just gotten a macarthur grant… hooooooo haaaaaaa! It was astonishing. I’m sure very few people outside of graphic designers and...
by Joel Friedlander | Sep 28, 2010 | Book Design, Interior Design
Have you ever thought about negative space? And no, I don’t mean some metaphysical concept of matter and anti-matter. When book designers talk about “negative space” they are talking primarily about unprinted areas of the page. Any areas that are...
by Joel Friedlander | Apr 17, 2010 | Book Design
Years ago I set up my first company in a double-wide trailer beside some oaks and manzanita in an out-of-the-way spot on the far side of the Central Valley. With the help of my talented friend Michael, I started doing graphic design jobs for people in the Sacramento...
by Joel Friedlander | Mar 1, 2010 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
Click to enlarge We haven’t seen much of the Apple iPad yet, and the screen shots we have seen show that the fonts for the Apple iPad are perhaps not all they might be.What do we know? Apple, as far as I know, has issued only the one press release on the day of...
