Designed by

Category

Best Designed Children’s/Young Adult Series

Year

2020

Publisher

Hachette Australia

About the Designer

Design Rationale

To emphasise the rivalry between the characters the front cover features Lento, and the back is hijacked by Fox. Fox writes the blurb, which is a rationale for his cheeky behaviour. The same ‘takeover’ occurs with the endpapers and a book-ownership squabble is evident on the title page with both characters scribbling their names and hilariously defacing the imprint’s branding; “SLOTH”IAN. Readers are coaxed by a slow, deliberate typestyle for sloth’s dialogue, and a hasty scrawl reflecting Fox’s impatient personality. The design underscores the characters awareness that they’re part of a book and are desperately vying for the reader’s attention.

Details

Dimensions

235 x 290 mm

No. pages

32

Special finishes

Matt lamination and spot UV

Credits

Internal Design

Illustration

Ben Sanders

Typesetting

Ben Sanders

Printing

Toppan Leefung Printing

Author

Ben Sanders