I just finished working on a fun little book, Anodynes and Nostrums: A Century of Patent Medicines for Infants and Children.
I usually only work with an image chosen by the author, so the potential for doing something different was very inspiring! I was able to find a bottle of Baby-Ease–one of the patent medicines discussed in the book–at an antique store in town. Sean Girard, my photographer husband, took the photo, and the layout is designed to look like a label on the bottle. The type was inspired by some of the ads run in the book. The title is set in GrekoDeco, and the rest is Artcraft. (I see Artcraft used pretty often, most recently in a board book about an apple farmer.)
The author, Dr. Anita Britt, ended up wanting something with more color, so this is the second go-round, using a vivid image from the text:
The book will be out soon!
Anodynes and Nostrums: A Century of Patent Medicines for Infants and Children by Anita L. Britt, PhD · Los Angeles: Figueroa Press, 2014 · 64 pages · 32 full-color images · paperback · ISBN 978-0-18-217303-7