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Hot Little Hands
  • Designers' Choice
  • Winner

Designed by
Laura Thomas
Category
Best Designed Literary Fiction Book, Designers' Choice Cover of the Year
Year
2016
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton an imprint of Penguin Random House Australia

About the Designer

Laura is a Melbourne-based book designer. She has a number of years of experience working across a wide variety of titles as an in-house designer at Penguin Random House, and is now a senior designer at Scribe Publications.

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Design Rationale

This collection of short stories all focus on young women coming to terms with (or failing to come to terms with) desire, and being desired. The stories are often frank and sexual, and they’re all beautifully crafted. The brief came to me quite open and mentioned the words ‘bright, bold, fun, sexy, hipster – but not too much’.

Details
Dimensions
153 x 234 mm
No. pages
304
Special finishes
Matte lamination with spot gloss
Credits
Internal Design
Laura Thomas
Printing
Griffin Press
Author
Abigail Ulman