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Felix Culpa
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Designed by
Allison Colpoys
Category
Best Designed Literary Fiction Cover
Year
2019
Publisher
Scribe Publications

About the Designer

Allison Colpoys is an award-winning designer and illustrator, and the Art Director at Scribe Publications. Her picture books include The Underwater Fancy-dress Parade, Under the Love Umbrella, If All the World Were… and All the Ways To Be Smart. As well as receiving numerous Australian Book Design Awards for her illustration and cover design, she has won the CBCA Crichton Award for Best New Talent and two Australian Book Industry Awards.

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Design Rationale

This is a very unique novel – Jeremy Gavron has created a story made out of lines taken from a hundred great works of literature. The title is Latin and its translation is ‘Happy Fall’. The story follows a writer who is on the trail of a boy recently released from prison, but in searching for the boy’s story he loses the narrative of his how life and falls into someone else’s. To reflect this storyline and the title, I created the motif of the man falling.

Details
Dimensions
128 x 129 mm
No. pages
208
Special finishes
 2c x 0c (PMS Orange 021 U + Black U) with Machine Sealer Varnish
Credits
Internal Design
Allison Colpoys
Illustration
Allison Colpoys
Typesetting
Allison Colpoys
Printing
CPI Group
Author
Jeremy Gavron