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Real Pigeons Series (Fight Crime and Eat Danger)
  • Shortlisted

Designed by
Kristy Lund-White
Category
Best Designed Children’s/Young Adult Series
Year
2019
Publisher
Hardie Grant Children's Publishing

About the Designer

Kristy is a cheerful freelance graphic designer, based in Melbourne. She has been working in publishing since 2003 and specialises in children’s titles and creative lettering.

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Design Rationale

The creative brief for the design of Real Pigeons was to: capture the hilariously silly crime-fighting pigeon mysteries within the text; be highly visible amongst a sea of bright, busy competitor titles; and to provide a cover which would sit comfortably on a shelf in an independent bookstore or chain. Countless design iterations were explored, including a range of custom lettering options, layout/illustration variations and colour combinations before we settled on our absolute favourite!

Details
Dimensions
150 x 190 mm
No. pages
204
Special finishes
Embossing and spot gloss
Credits
Internal Design
Kristy Lund-White
Illustration
Ben Wood
Typesetting
Kristy Lund-White
Printing
McPherson's Printing Group
Author
Andrew McDonald