Selected work · Publishing
Sold Out
A book about three kinds of love, drawn as one road.
01 · Overview
Cover and interior design for Henry Okafor's Sold Out, published by Ten Over Ten in Pennsylvania, across paperback, hardcover, eBook and audiobook.
Sold Out: Where Every Love Meets is a book by Henry Okafor, published by Ten Over Ten in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. It is built on one sentence, love God fully, love others freely, love you wholly, and walks the reader through three spaces: the kitchen table, the crowded room and the walk home.
Mike Bruce Design designed the cover and the full interior, and set the type.
02 · Challenge
A cover has one second on a shelf, and three hundred pages to keep its promise.
The cover had to hold the whole journey of the book in a single image and survive at thumbnail size on a retailer page. The interior had to make a long, layered text feel calm and readable from prologue to epilogue.
Every edition needed to feel like one book: paperback, hardcover, eBook and audiobook.
03 · Solution
One road from the kitchen table to the walk home.
The cover draws the book's structure as a single winding road. It begins at a kitchen table with an open book, passes through a crowd gathered at a cross, and ends with one figure walking forward. Red, black and warm parchment keep it legible at any size, with the title set large in a serif with a hand-cut edge.
The interior is set as a classic trade book: a quiet serif, generous margins, drop caps at each chapter, small-caps running heads and part openers that mark each of the three spaces. Contents, prologue, three parts and seventeen chapters read as one system.
The same system extends to the hardcover case, the eBook and the audiobook cover.
The system in this work
- 01Clarify™
- 02Construct™
- 03Connect™
- 04Convert™
04 · Result & conclusion
Sold Out was published in 2026 in paperback and hardcover, with eBook and audiobook editions, all carrying one design system.
