Book Design

  • Cover of book entitled "Trail Running Eastern Massachusetts" depicting photograph of three white women running through a wooded trail, by author Ben Kimball

    Trail Running Eastern Massachusetts

    BEN KIMBALL

    Ben Kimball published Trail Running Eastern Massachusetts with UMass Press as a follow-up to his first trail running guide, Trail Running Western Massachusetts, published by the now defunct University Press of New England. I enjoyed carrying over the previous designer’s interior composition to this edition to create continuity between the two volumes. The cover came together wih a photograph that Ben shot himself, paired with straightforward yet unassuming typography to connect the book on the shelf to the runner perusing the store.

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  • All-white book cover with bold font showing the face of a Latina woman through the letters which entitle the book "White Space." The subtitle reads "Essays on Culture, Race, & Writing" by Jennifer De Leon

    White Space

    JENNIFER DE LEON

    The design for White Space was brought to me as a pretty open slate. I was eager to employ the double meaning of the title in a literal way on the cover, depicting the face of a Latina woman—who would symbolize the first-person narrator of the essays—through the negative space that the letters of the title created when “subtracted” from the white space of the cover’s otherwise entirely white background. Only with the presence of the woman’s face is the viewer clued into the blatancy of the stark white cover. The cover font is Neutraface, which provided a lot of spaciousness inside its characters in which to situate the photograph of the woman. The interior body font is Alegreya, by Argentinian type designer Juan Pablo Del Peral. White Space was the first book in which the author thanked me by name in her acknowledgments for “the stunning cover,” which marked a moment of real pride for me.

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  • Book cover depicting the title "The Lexington Six" in rainbow colors above a photo of six people facing the camera. The subtitle reads "Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America" by Josephine Donovan

    The Lexington Six

    JOSEPHINE DONOVAN

    Including this photograph was the only piece of direction I was given when designing this cover. It is the only photo that exists of the “Lexington Six,” as the building of the newspaper for which the photo had been taken had burned down, and no higher-quality photographs remained. Since I couldn’t increase the quality of the photo, I leaned into its low-res feel and amplified its half-tone a bit. The second figure to the left was meant to remain anonymous, so I removed some distinguishable features from her face and situated her behind the first “bar” of the jail cell I created by extending the negative space between the letters of the title. I chose Helvetica Neue as my font and the subdued rainbow colors to reflect the neo-grotesque typography and muted color themes of the 70s.

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  • Playing God in the Meadow

    MARTHA LEB MOLNAR

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  • Dogged

    STACY GNALL

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  • Vicious Infants

    LAURA SODERBERG

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  • Traveling the Old Ski Tracks of New England

    E. JOHN B. ALLEN

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  • The Persistence of Slavery

    ROBN PHYLISIA CHAPDELAINE

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  • Unfollowers

    LEIGH ANN RUGGIERO

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  • "Fame is Not Just for the Fellas"

    GREGORY M. PFITZER

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  • The Combat Zone

    JAN BROGAN

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  • Archival Fictions

    PAUL BENZON

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