ghostofamerica book design

Selected Spreads

Spread showing a vintage transistor-amplifier circuit schematic rendered in thin white linework on a near-black ground, spanning the verso and bleeding onto the recto
a vintage schematic, thin white linework and circuit notation, glows against a near-black ground. Repurposed, pure composition.
Title spread with the words 'Library', 'o', 'f', and 'branches' broken apart and stacked in a thin, wide-tracked sans-serif on a white field, beside a solid dark left-hand page
The title arrives broken across a wide gap. Set in Roc Grotesk.
Pages 20 and 21, each holding two short stanzas set in a thin, evenly spaced typewriter-style face, surrounded by wide margins of white space
The poem is set in Baskerville.
Pages 22 and 23, continuing the same spare typewriter setting, with one line of text lifted into italics
This poem imbues the page with structure.
Pages 24 and 25, holding the same spare grid of short-measure stanzas and generous white margins
Pages 26 and 27, the closing spread of the excerpt, set in the same restrained typewriter face and open field of white as the rest of the section
Fractured rhythms vibrate the letters apart.