- Designed by
- Michelle Mackintosh
- Category
- Best Designed Series (including Classics)
- Year
- 2021
- Publisher
- Smith Street Books
About the Designer
Michelle Mackintosh is an author, graphic designer and illustrator. She has worked on a number of illustrated books, including cookbooks and craft books. Michelle also designs stationery and logos. She is based in Melbourne, Australia.
View profile- Design Rationale
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As fans know how their favourite eras look, the design aims to graphically tell genres’ stories through type, colour and shape. They’re gifty: to be dipped in and out of.
Both use black and one bright or fluro PMS colour to cut through bookshelves. This short hand approach guided the process. Simplicity and carefully chosen graphic elements guide spreads, while a classic sans serif was chosen: an important link that lends a timelessness.
Both have design driven charts, while the spines were chosen for impact. The paper stock for the last sections changes from matte to lighter weight gloss stock.
- Details
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- Dimensions
- 170 x 210 mm
- No. pages
- 96
- Credits
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- Internal Design
- Michelle Mackintosh
- Illustration
- Michelle Mackintosh
- Typesetting
- Michelle Mackintosh
- Printing
- C&C Offset Printing
- Author
- Steve Wide