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Jessica Horrocks: (Winner) Emerging Designer of the Year 2019
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Jessica Horrocks
Category
Emerging Designer of the Year
Year
2019

About the Designer

Jessica is a designer and production coordinator at Text Publishing, where she has worked since 2015. Prior to this she had a brief stint in the design department of an advertising agency and a longer one in the production department of an educational publisher. She won Emerging Designer of the Year at the 2019 Australian Book Design Awards.

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Design Rationale

Jessica Horrocks cleverly communicates the style and content of the books through her design; her folio gave a sense of how diverse she is as designer, able to find a cohesive balance between type and image across all her work. Of particular note was the texture and venn diagram cookie used on The Helpline cover design. One judge commented that ‘Jessica’s covers are not only impressive individually, they also demonstrate how comfortable she is working in different styles on different genres, producing something that’s entirely appropriate each time, combined with her individual take on things. I think she’s already gone beyond the stage of “emerging”’.

 

Find You in the Dark
Cover Design: Jessica Horrocks
Internal Design: Text (based on Simon & Schusted edition)
Photographer: Henry Steadman/Arcangel and iStock
Publisher: Text Publishing
Printer: Griffin Press

Books that Saved My Life
Cover Design: Jessica Horrocks
Internal Design: Jessica Horrocks
Photographer: Ralph Smith/Getty, iStock and Shutterstock
Illustration: iStock
Typesetting: Typography Studio
Publisher: Text Publishing
Printer: Griffin Press

Our Life in the Forest
Cover Design: Jessica Horrocks
Internal Design: Jessica Horrocks
Photographer: iStock
Illustration: iStock
Typesetting: J&M Typesetting
Publisher: Text Publishing
Printer: Griffin Press

The Helpline
Cover Design: Jessica Horrocks
Internal Design: Jessica Horrocks
Photographer: iStock & Shutterstock
Illustration: Simon Barnard and Jessica Horrocks
Typesetting: J&M Typesetting
Publisher: Text Publishing
Printer: Griffin Press

Credits
Internal Design
Jessica Horrocks
Typesetting
Books that Saved My Life (Typography Studio), Our Life in the Forest (J&M Typesetting), The Helpline (J&M Typesetting).
Printing
Griffin Press (all)
Author
Find You in the Dark (Nathan Ripley), Books that Saved My Life (Michael McGirr), Our Life in the Forest (Marie Darrieusseco), The Helpline (Katherine Collette).