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Laurinda
  • Shortlisted

Designed by
Peter Long
Category
Best Designed Young Adult Cover
Year
2015
Publisher
Black Inc.

About the Designer

Peter has been designing books for more than fifteen years, and until recently was Senior Designer at Black Inc.Books and the Art Director of The Monthly magazine. Before books he designed mostly for stage and film. He is also a filmmaker; the short film A Telephone Call for Genevieve Snow, which he wrote and directed, won the Silver Lion for the best short film at the Venice Film Festival.  …

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Design Rationale

Laurinda by Alice Pung is a picaresque YA novel about an Asian girl from the wrong side of the tracks winning a scholarship to an exclusive girls’ school. There is a theme of fabric and sewing through the book – Lucy’s mother slaves over a sewing machine doing piece work at home, and early in the novel threatens to sew Lucy’s uniform herself. And uniforms are a signifier of social order and control.

Details
Dimensions
128 x 198 mm
No. pages
288
Credits
Internal Design
Peter Long
Author
Alice Pung