- Designed by
- Murray Batten
- Category
- Best Designed Cookbook
- Year
- 2017
- Publisher
- Hardie Grant Books
About the Designer
Murray is an award wining freelance book designer with over six years experience and has worked with some of Australia’s leading publishers including Hardie Grant Publishing, Murdoch Books, HarperCollins Australia & Smith Street Books.
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The design features the classic serif typeface Caslon, set elegantly against ink illustrations (drawn by Robin Cowcher) to represent the hero ingredients of each chapter. The restrained composition of the layout let the minimalist styling of the photography breathe, creating the same sense of sophistication of Mark’s Sydney restaurant. The title is set large and authoritatively, and a black and white colour palette is used to enhance the instantly classic tone of the book. To give a sense of quality we used black linen wibalin for the bottom half of the cover, with an elegant copper foil of the ingredients.
- Details
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- Dimensions
- 213 x 267 mm
- No. pages
- 264
- Special finishes
- Linen Wibalin, Buckram Wibalin, Deboss, Copper Foil, Black Ribbon and Wibalin Endpapers
- Credits
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- Internal Design
- Murray Batten
- Photography
- Petrina Tinslay
- Illustration
- Robin Cowcher
- Typesetting
- Megan Ellis
- Printing
- 1010 Printing
- Author
- Mark Best