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Why We Took the Car
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Designed by
Allison Colpoys
Category
Best Designed Young Adult Cover
Year
2015
Publisher
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

Why We Took The Car is a coming-of-age story about the unlikely friendship between two unpopular high school kids, Mike and Tshick, who end up embarking on a crazy road-trip across Germany. I think this cover concept seemed to come together quite easily when I compare it to other titles I’ve worked on. I wanted to convey a sense of adventure, youth, small crappy car-ness and middle of nowhere-ness.

Details
Dimensions
135 x 210 mm
No. pages
256
Special finishes
Matt Lamination, Spot UV
Credits
Internal Design
Allison Colpoys
Illustration
Allison Colpoys
Typesetting
Allison Colpoys
Author
Wolfgang Herndorf