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Honeybee
  • Shortlisted

Designed by
Lisa White
Category
Best Designed Literary Fiction Cover
Year
2021
Publisher
Allen & Unwin

About the Designer

Lisa White is an award winning freelance designer with many years experience in the publishing industry. She previously worked inhouse for Scholastic, spent a decade with Allen & Unwin and most recently was Head of Design for HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand and ABC Books.

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Design Rationale

As a novel about a young person trying to understand their true gender, a lot of consideration was put into how the character should be represented. The author had a clear vision, it had to be raw and gritty, yet a beautiful image with a contemporary feel. The usual procedure of searching through stock photography did not have the right result. So with the guidance and collaboration with the author, the right talent and a photographer to create the vision was found. Use of strong bold type, texture and colours helped to cement the vision.

Details
Dimensions
153 x 234 mm
No. pages
432
Credits
Internal Design
Lisa White
Photography
Daniel Grant
Typesetting
Bookhouse Sydney
Printing
Griffin Press
Author
Craig Silvey