- Designed by
- Josh Durham
- Category
- Best Designed Non-Fiction Cover
- Year
- 2019
- Publisher
- Transit Lounge
About the Designer
Josh worked in magazine design before setting up his company Design by Committee under the mentorship of Australian book design luminary W.H. Chong. He draws upon a broad skill base to offer both illustrative and concept driven solutions to literary fiction, commercial fiction, YA, children’s, non fiction and illustrated book commissions for all of Australia’s leading publishers.
View profile- Design Rationale
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A wild and psychedelic memoir- the sort of book that makes your own life seem straightjacketed!. Follows a young mans travel / spiritual journey and awakening into drug experience and danger. There was quite a lot of visual stimulus in the narrative- but how to narrow it down to something compelling? I worked up the lion head/Cthulhu illustration with the young man on his tongue to symbolise drug ingestion and be a focal point of the cover- all elements being key reference points in the memoir. This cover has great visual and emotional power- and shelf presence!
- Details
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- Dimensions
- 155 x 235 mm
- No. pages
- 375
- Special finishes
- Matt Laminate
- Credits
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- Internal Design
- Josh Durham
- Illustration
- Josh Durham, Design by Committee
- Typesetting
- Cannon Typesetting
- Printing
- McPherson's Printing Group
- Author
- Jan Golembiewski