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Be Your Own Man
  • Highly Commended

Designed by
Andy Warren
Category
Best Designed Children's Non-Fiction Illustrated Book
Year
2021
Publisher
Five Mile

About the Designer

Andy is an award winning Melbourne based designer. After graduating from RMIT in 2013, Andy interned then eventually worked as a designer at Hardie Grant Books. Working across a range of non-fiction titles, the work produced here led Andy to be awarded Young Designer of the Year in 2017. Andy is now working in-house at Five Mile as Senior Designer.

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Design Rationale

The design brief required the cover to complement but not mirror the author’s earlier book LOVE YOUR BODY. The approach to the cover was typographically led design, accented with vignette illustrations. We wanted a hand-lettered approach, and given the foreign language market potential we needed a font that could create this effect. The colour choice on the cover was critical with to make the artwork pop and still feel in sync with the author’s first book. The fonts thru-out complement the retro-cartoon flavour of the illustrations that were commissioned for this book.

Details
Dimensions
210 x 275 mm
No. pages
40
Special finishes
Matt laminated case, spot UV, emboss
Credits
Internal Design
Andy Warren
Illustration
Robbie Cathro
Typesetting
Niki Horin
Printing
R.R. Donnelley
Author
Jessica Sanders