Awards Book Archive

Human Kind Series
  • Highly Commended

Designed by
Andy Warren
Category
Best Designed Children’s/Young Adult Series
Year
2021
Publisher
Five Mile

About the Designer

Andy is an award winning Melbourne based designer. After graduating from RMIT in 2013, Andy interned then eventually worked as a designer at Hardie Grant Books. Working across a range of non-fiction titles, the work produced here led Andy to be awarded Young Designer of the Year in 2017. Andy is now working in-house at Five Mile as Senior Designer.

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Design Rationale

Human Kind is a non-fiction picture book series about the values that underpin our lives. The brief for design was to work in sync with the retro-style artwork that had been commissioned while having a strong shelf presence. The series is in many way a homage to simpler times. The colour blocking on the cover and playful busy endpapers are a nod to the beloved Golden Book range, while The diecut cover is a playful addition — and more symbolically there to engage kids to live the values in the book – by putting their face through the hole! 🙂

Details
Dimensions
210 x 275 mm
No. pages
32
Special finishes
Matt laminated case, with 5th colour Pantone as main book colour, circular die-cut through front of cover, revealing image of character underneath printed on endpaper.
Credits
Internal Design
Andy Warren
Illustration
Missy Turner
Typesetting
Niki Horin
Printing
R.R. Donnelley
Author
Zanni Louise