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 | 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 18, 2010 | Book Design
I’ve been working for several months on a book that’s just getting ready to go to press. It’s the first book I’ve typeset in the Century typeface in quite a while. Century isn’t one typeface. It’s actually a family of related...
by Joel Friedlander | Oct 22, 2010 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
Typefaces have always exerted a powerful force on my imagination. I grew up with huge, heavy American Type Foundry type sample books in our living room, and would spend hours looking at the designs. When I started to study typography and book design, I was fascinated...
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...