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...
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...
