Hi, my name is Joel, and I’m an addict. Like a lot of you, my graphic design addiction started innocently enough. It was long ago, in a different and simpler time. There I was, designing brochures and advertisements, keeping the waxer hot and the t-squares lined...
Anyone who wants to do their own book design can spend some very worthwhile time studying books that are old. I mean really old, like going all the way back to the beginning of printed books. Early on, I found these books and the book typography that’s used in...
If you’re a video gamer, or if you have one in the house, you may be familiar with the phenomenon of “easter eggs.” “A virtual Easter egg is an intentional hidden message, in-joke, or feature in a work such as a computer program, web page,...
One of the enjoyable parts of learning a new field is finding out what all the insider language of that field is all about. When I got started in mountain biking, for instance, I was surprised to learn that the pedals I used, which were made specifically to clip onto...
Sometimes things happen in waves, or some people say they happen in threes. But people also have the uncanny ability to see patterns—even where they don’t exist. Whatever the case, recently I ended up designing two contemporary novels by women novelists,...
