- Designed by
- Josh Durham
- Category
- Best Designed Children's Fiction Book
- Year
- 2015
- Publisher
- Omnibus Books an imprint of Scholastic Australia
About the Designer
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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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The brief suggested an illustrated approach and it immediately made sense to try something to wrap around the cover – the idea was to simplify the sense of a young girls journey from arid Africa to bustling America. A bold illustrative style and colour palette was used to break the break the landscapes into generic shapes and complement this with use a lively mix of hand drawn and standard type.
- Details
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- Dimensions
- 129 x 198 mm
- No. pages
- 183
- Credits
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- Internal Design
- Josh Durham
- Illustration
- Josh Durham, Design by Committee
- Author
- Tasmin Janu