A Book by Its Cover

We’re getting very close to the release of Sebastian Felix Braun’s new book, Bearing the Burden of Booms: Energy, Extraction, Communities, and Landscapes on the Plains. 

We were very very happy to have another brilliant cover from Vitoria Faccin-Herman on this book. We deliberately worked to evoke the covers on the last two Bakken related books from the press: The Bakken Goes Boom and Sixty Years of Boom and Bust. 

I don’t quite have a template for interior design, but I continue to work on a developing a kind of “house style.” One area where I know I have to improve is table of content. I’ve traditionally done the title of the chapter followed by a long leader of periods and the page. This is not only painfully dated, but uninteresting.

For Sebastian’s book, I tried a slightly different style:

The font should be pretty obvious to everyone with the internet: Proxima Nova. Proxima Nova has been ubiquitous for nearly a decade (as have other geometric, sans-serif fonts like Gotham; they all kind of grew out of Futura which I love). I like using these fonts to make the digital side of the digital press kind of obvious, but without going too far in that direction (e.g. Roboto vel sim.). This is also the font that I used for chapter titles.

Anyway, I’m more or less satisfied with this cleaner, more contemporary looking table of contents. This book is due to appear next Tuesday.