Awards Book Archive

For the Forest of a Bird
  • Shortlisted

Designed by
Allison Colpoys, Marina Messiha
Category
Best Designed Young Adult Cover
Year
2016
Publisher
Penguin Random House Australia

About the Designer

Allison Colpoys is an award-winning designer and illustrator, and the Art Director at Scribe Publications. Her picture books include The Underwater Fancy-dress Parade, Under the Love Umbrella, If All the World Were… and All the Ways To Be Smart. As well as receiving numerous Australian Book Design Awards for her illustration and cover design, she has won the CBCA Crichton Award for Best New Talent and two Australian Book Industry Awards.

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Design Rationale

The author’s previous books have contained a wonderful illustrated branding which I wanted to continue. I wanted the cover design to evoke the characters fragility but also the complicated nature of family relationships and friendships. Alison Colpoys’ stunning illustration captured the author’s lyrical style, beautiful imagery and poetic voice. The intertwine of the delicate flowers with a burst of fluorescent pink does it justice and more.

Details
Dimensions
129 x 198 mm
No. pages
208
Special finishes
Reverse board was used with a varnish on the cover to protect the book giving a matt lamination effect.
Credits
Illustration
Allison Colpoys
Printing
Griffin Press
Author
Sue Saliba