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Kokomo
  • Commended

Designed by
Alissa Dinallo
Category
Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover
Year
2021
Publisher
Hachette Australia

About the Designer

Alissa is a Sydney-based book designer who has worked in-house at Allen & Unwin and Penguin Random House. When not designing for commercial publishing houses, Alissa also works closely with writers to create artist’s books and typographic works. She is also a co-founder of BookEating Press, a boutique publishing company. She was named Young Designer of the Year at the 2015 Australian Book Design Awards.

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Design Rationale

I wanted to try and capture a sense of the modern woman, and the realities of life and love. Something I think ‘Kokomo’ as a novel absolutely embodies. I used modern, sans serif typography coupled with a contemporary photographic style.

Details
Dimensions
153 x 234 mm
No. pages
300
Special finishes
Spot UV
Credits
Internal Design
Alissa Dinallo
Typesetting
Bookouse Sydney
Printing
Griffin Press
Author
Victoria Hannan