ghostofamerica book design

Secret History of Roadside Attractions

Cover of Secret History of Roadside Attractions, designed by ghostofamerica book design — a hand-drawn illustration of a weathered roadside curiosity rendered in faded sign-paint colors, with the title set in a worn, vernacular display face

The Bucket

Opening spread for 'The Bucket' with a hand-lettered story title set over a loose pen-and-ink sketch of a roadside stand, the body text beginning in a single column on the facing page
"The Bucket" opens with a pen-and-ink sketch of a cabin, a palimpsest.
Spread with a loose pencil sketch of a forest cabin in the margin beside a column of running text set in a warm serif
The title is given it's own spread. It lays on a white page opposite a black page.
Spread of running text set in a warm serif with a wide left margin reserved for marginal sketches and notations
The body text is set in Baskerville and the story opens halfway down the page, giving the reader room to settle in.
Spread with a hand-drawn diagram of the bucket attraction's mechanism, labeled in a small hand-lettered caption face
Clean breaks don't draw attention to themselves.
Spread of running text drawing toward the story's end, set in the same warm serif with a faint sign-paint red used for a single line of dialogue
Closing spread for 'The Bucket' with the final lines of text set above a small closing illustration of the attraction at dusk