Other Press

Standout Features:

• Clean, minimal UI
• Color-coded backdrops
• Carousel showcase

Other Press, an NYC-based publisher attracts authors who are guided by a passion to discover the limits of knowledge and imagination. They publish novels, short stories, poetry, and essays — representing literature at its best.

The Being Wicked agency has opted for a fairly minimal and clean website design. It is basically an online bookstore and the closest thing you can have to the real deal (browsing the latest titles personally, deciding whether they fit your interests kind of experience).

Besides the colorful backgrounds related to specific publications, the website uses a couple of different fonts. The dominant one being the variation on serif, Karsten semi-bold typeface.

A font inspired by the historical signs on Dutch colonial buildings on the island of Java, it blends the modern with the traditional. This particular typography is a synthesis between two cultures, the East and the West, which demonstrates literature’s universal, global merit.

While the website’s eCommerce functionality seems quite ordinary at first glance, it actually deliberately draws from the act of reading. Browsing through the showcase carousel and product offerings is akin to turning the pages of a book while exploring the menu bar resembles searching for titles in the library’s catalog cabinet.