- Designed by
- W.H. Chong
- Category
- Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover
- Year
- 2015
- Publisher
- Text Publishing
About the Designer
W. H. Chong is the long-time design director at Text Publishing and designed their logo. In 2013 Chong was inducted into the Australian Book Design Hall of Fame. He is a founding member of ABDA, serving as Secretary from 2014 to 2016. He has written and spoken about book design, and blogged on art and culture for Crikey and Daily Review. He is also an exhibiting artist. …
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The Brief: Debut novel, “superior chicklit”, fresh and feel-good. The Narrative: Romance set in London. Tess is a vintage clothes-obsessive, George is a jazz pianist, both partnered to the “wrong” people. Can their mutual friends get their paths to cross? The Design: The two protagonists are symbolically established and entangled by imposing the silhouette of a sexy vintage dress on a pattern of keyboards. Splatters of warm colour suggest the intrusion of chaos and blossoming romance.
- Details
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- Dimensions
- 153 x 234 mm
- No. pages
- 368
- Credits
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- Internal Design
- W.H. Chong, Imogen Stubbs
- Illustration
- W.H. Chong
- Author
- Marianne Kavanagh