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The Underwater Fancy-Dress Parade
  • Designers' Choice
  • Winner

Designed by
Allison Colpoys
Category
Best Designed Children's Illustrated Book, Designers' Choice Children's/Young Adult Cover of the Year
Year
2016
Publisher
Scribble Kids' Books an imprint of Scribe Publications

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

We used pantone colours throughout instead of CMYK, and I was also so keen (and keeping my fingers crossed that we would be able) to use silver foil on the cover to highlight some of the marine life. Davina writes about an aquarium in the story and says, ‘everything there was shimmery and beautiful’ and so we really wanted the cover to have that exact feel. The text design for the internal pages is deliberately simple, and I chose a classic font because it felt right for the story, as it’s so quiet and sensitive.

Details
Dimensions
210 x 255 mm
No. pages
32
Special finishes
4C PMS throughout, Silver foil
Credits
Internal Design
Allison Colpoys
Illustration
Allison Colpoys
Typesetting
Allison Colpoys
Printing
Imago
Author
Davina Bell