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Passion Purpose Profit
  • Commended

Designed by
Andy Warren
Category
Best Designed Non-Fiction Book
Year
2021
Publisher
Hardie Grant Books

About the Designer

Andy is an award winning Melbourne based designer. After graduating from RMIT in 2013, Andy interned then eventually worked as a designer at Hardie Grant Books. Working across a range of non-fiction titles, the work produced here led Andy to be awarded Young Designer of the Year in 2017. Andy is now working in-house at Five Mile as Senior Designer.

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Design Rationale

When I read the manuscript for this book it struck me as one of the most user-friendly and helpful guides that I had come across for the often overworked, under-appreciated small business owners. I knew the design for this needed to feel simple and very clearly structured, so I researched and incorporated classic diary/planner navigational devices and clear hierarchy for the text. Large geometric shapes were employed to illustrate the idea of balance, a valuable skill that the author is trying to teach in this book. There are large coloured circles and triangles that are precariously leaning off each other.

Details
Dimensions
160 x 210 mm
No. pages
240
Special finishes
Emboss and spot UV
Credits
Internal Design
Andy Warren
Typesetting
Andy Warren
Printing
Leo Paper Products
Author
Fiona Killackey