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.

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.

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.