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Red Herring
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Designed by
Darren Holt, HarperCollins Design Studio
Category
Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover
Year
2017
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Design Rationale

A fictional story that revolves around the real events of the communist involvement of the waterfront strike in 1950s New Zealand. The manuscript has many references to matches and items being set alight, cigarettes, rubbish, fires, fuses, bombs. Early concepts used old 50s crime paperbacks and film noir posters that were a little too of a pastiche. The design reconstructs an image of an old soviet matchbox with the flame burning into the more modern type. A contemporary approach with a nod to old 50s crime paperbacks and noir posters.

Details
Dimensions
153 x 234 mm
No. pages
320
Special finishes
Matt lam and spot gloss UV
Credits
Internal Design
HarperCollins Design Studio
Illustration
Darren Holt, HarperCollins Design Studio
Typesetting
Darren Holt, HarperCollins Design Studio
Printing
Griffin Press
Author
Jonothan Cullinane