- Designed by
- Josh Durham
- Category
- Best Designed Young Adult Cover
- Year
- 2017
- Publisher
- Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
About the Designer
Josh worked in magazine design before setting up his company Design by Committee under the mentorship of Australian book design luminary W.H. Chong. He draws upon a broad skill base to offer both illustrative and concept driven solutions to literary fiction, commercial fiction, YA, children’s, non fiction and illustrated book commissions for all of Australia’s leading publishers.
View profile- Design Rationale
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A gritty look at navigating ethnic rivalries, fights and first loves in the schoolyard and on the streets. We started playing with the fist bump as a motif, but that seemed too obvious. We wanted something graphic, bold and kinetic, and I hit upon using painted letter shapes for that simple title. I overlaid the fists and girl to suggest negative shapes in the letters. To add extra graphic interest I created a line drawing street map that would be used as a SPOT UV layer. All illustration work and hand-drawn type by Design by Committee.
- Details
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- Dimensions
- 210 x 135 mm
- No. pages
- 240
- Special finishes
- Spot UV
- Credits
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- Internal Design
- Patrick Cannon
- Illustration
- Josh Durham, Design by Committee
- Typesetting
- Patrick Cannon
- Printing
- McPherson's Printing Group
- Author
- Helen Chebatte