- Designed by
- Debra Billson
- Category
- Best Designed Literary Fiction Book
- Year
- 2020
- Publisher
- Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan Australia
About the Designer
Debra has been designing books since Roxette had ‘The Look’. She spent her early career creating products for children as an art director and studio manager, until landing her dream job at Penguin Books. For almost a decade, this saw her working across all genres with some of Australia’s highest profile authors, until starting her own business from her Melbourne home-studio in 2007. Whilst having designed everything from children’s board books to cookbooks, Debra’s true love is creating fiction covers…
View profile- Design Rationale
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A powerful collection of women’s stories about the MeToo movement requires a loud and ‘shouty’ cover that isn’t apologetic. We knew it had to be typographic, and so my concepts all featured the words #MeToo in very large and bold typography without really any imagery to speak of. The existing cover is exactly as it was presented in this first round of concepts (sans quote), as the ‘font’ I discovered by Passion Artist, when adapted, seemed to carry the cover perfectly.
- Details
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- Dimensions
- 154 x 233 mm
- No. pages
- 368
- Special finishes
- None. Gloss lamination only
- Credits
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- Internal Design
- Post Pre-Press
- Illustration
- Passion Artist
- Typesetting
- Post Pre-Press
- Printing
- McPherson's Printing Group
- Author
- Miriam Sved, Christie Nieman, Maggie Scott and Natalie Kon-yu