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Cordite Series 4
  • Longlisted

Designed by
Zoë Sadokierski
Category
Best Designed Series (including Classics)
Year
2021
Publisher
Cordite Books

About the Designer

Zoë is an award-winning designer and writer, and the current President of ABDA. Zoë lectures in the School of Design at the University of Technology Sydney where she runs a research studio investigating the evolution of books in the digital age. In 2015 she established Bookwork Press, a small publisher of illustrated essays and artist books.

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Design Rationale

Each book in this series of contemporary Australian poetry is unique – there aren’t connecting themes or writing style. To establish a consistent visual system for the series, I created a paper-cut collage of a key object or scene from each book, composed in a distinctive grid, with a spot colour for each book. The circles wrapping around the thin spines create a diagonal pattern when the books are shelved in order.

Details
Dimensions
152 x 224 mm
No. pages
90
Special finishes
Nil – no budget
Credits
Internal Design
Zoë Sadokierski
Illustration
Zoe Sadokierski
Typesetting
Kent MacCarter
Printing
McPherson's Printing Group
Author
Multiple