Non-fiction Book Covers
For my Typography 2 class, we were tasked with re-designing three non-fiction book covers from the New York Times Best Sellers List from the summer of 2023. Each of our redesigns had to be typographically driven in terms of solution. I chose The In-Between by Hadley Vlahos, Education by Tara Westover, and Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
In The In-Between, Vlahos recounts the most impactful experiences she’s had with the people she’s worked with—from the woman who never once questioned her faith until she was close to death to the older man seeing visions of his late daughter to the young patient who laments that she
spent too much of her short life worrying about what others thought of her—while also sharing her fascinating journey
I wanted to incorporate the discussion of faith in the book and elongate the t to create a cross. The clouds represent the afterlife, specifically heaven.
Educated is a memoir by the American author Tara Westover. Westover recounts overcoming her survivalist Mormon family to go to college and emphasizes the importance of education in enlarging her world.
I used Procreate for the illustration on the cover. I wanted the title to come from the grass to tie to the name of the book.
Since Educated is a book about the author going to school, I wanted to incorporate that into the cover by having books as steps to her success. To use type I wanted the books to spell out Educated on the side.
Braiding Sweetgrass offers a profound and insightful look at the relationship between humans and Mother Earth. With the growing concerns about climate change, deforestation, and the depletion of our natural resources, it is more important to reevaluate how we treat the world around us.