by Joel Friedlander | Sep 29, 2010 | Book Design, Interior Design
(Ed: This post is part of a longer article that originally appeared last year on Self-Publishing Review) Book designers are typographers by necessity, if not by nature. Content may be king, but content is almost always text. Text must be displayed for a reader, either...
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 | Sep 20, 2010 | Book Design, Book Reviews, Book Typography, Interior Design
I wrote an article about six months ago about three typeface combinations I really liked. It was in the comments to that post that I met Douglas Bonneville, a designer and typographer who is the proprietor of the BonFX Graphic Design studio near Providence, Rhode...
by Joel Friedlander | Sep 7, 2010 | Book Design, Interior Design
The first book my son ever got truly captivated by as an early reader was Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. We had read the earlier Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone together, with me doing most of the reading since he had just learned to read. By the...
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...