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Children, Families and Communities
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Designed by
Regine Abos
Category
Best Designed Educational Tertiary Book
Year
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press

About the Designer

Reg is an award-winning designer and lecturer who runs the design consultancy Studio Regina. Her passion and expertise lie in book design, having worked extensively with publishers such as Oxford University Press, Black Dog Books (an imprint of Walker Books) and UNICEF. Reg also lectures in Data Visualisation, her other big passion. She runs a blog called Collected, where she designs info graphics on everything from hot chocolates she consumes to the songs stuck in her head.

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Design Rationale

Aimed at a predominantly female student population studying teacher education, the brief was to portray different socio-cultural factors that influence a child’s development on the cover. The design approach was to use the image of roads in a community (literal “paths” of development), some going in circles, some criss-crossing, to reflect that intellectual and social development aren’t necessarily straightforward. Illustrator (insert name of illustrator here) was commissioned for her child-like, yet sophisticated illustration style. The design for the internals and choice of typography were then based around this main cover illustration.

Details
Dimensions
190 x 245 mm
No. pages
402
Special finishes
Matt lam
Credits
Internal Design
Regine Abos, Caitlin Ziegler
Illustration
Hannah Tolson
Typesetting
diacriTech
Printing
Sheck Wah Tong Printing Press
Author
Edited by Rebekah Grace, Kerry Hodge and Catherine McMahon