After designing the galley for Cekpa: A Memoir in Beaded Essays by Leah Altman, I was selected to design the final interior. I was excited to do my first full interior for Ooligan Press, and I knew it would be a lot more involved than the galley.
There were a lot of things the final interior needed that the galley didn’t, like widow/orphan control. There were also several elements to the text of this book that would take some extra design finesse: poetry, bulleted lists, numbered lists, numbered lists with paragraphs within some of the items, text messages, quoted source material, vignettes, and the text reproduction of a funeral program.
In addition to the text elements, we decided during the interior design process to add a Lakota spider image as a chapter opening ornament, and a four-pointed star as the section break glyph (dinkus in design jargon). It was challenging as I was still fairly new to book design and hadn’t worked with images in these exact ways before, and it took some problem-solving, and I’m really pleased with and proud of the results.
Here is a sample of the Cekpa interior:
Here is the cover of Cekpa, in case you’re interested. It was designed by my Ooligan Press colleague Alex Devon, whose work you can see at mothinthemargins.wordpress.com! To be extra clear, this cover is NOT my work—I wish!—it’s here to add some visual flavor to the post, and as a chance to plug Alex’s work! Also, the book is really, really good and you should all read it!
Chrys Buckley 