by Joel Friedlander | Jan 22, 2011 | Book Design, Writing
Book Design. (1452 – 2011). Born near Mainz, Germany, Book Design came of age in the heady atmosphere of Venice in the Italian Renaissance. He went through a rocky adolescence when he seemed to lose track of his roots, but matured into the confident and gracious...
by Joel Friedlander | Jan 13, 2011 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
Case Study: Quiet Americans: Stories by Erika Dreifus Design Brief: The author is a short story writer and a contributing editor for The Writer magazine and Fiction Writers Review and an advisory board member for J Journal: New Writing on Justice. Erika’s writing...
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...
