- Designed by
- Jess Cruickshank
- Category
- Best Designed Young Adult Cover
- Year
- 2021
- Publisher
- Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
About the Designer
Jess is an illustrator and letterer. Represented by Jacky Winter, she works mostly with clients in advertising and publishing. She has created covers for Hachette, Penguin Random House, Harper Collins and Smudge Publishing.
View profile- Design Rationale
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The cover needed a design that was fun, edgy and glamourous. So I created custom illustrated neon-tube lettering to reflect the story’s key theme of a rising young star, pop music, fame and fortune. I kept it young and contemporary by using hand drawn writing and textures combined with a flat graphic style. The lightning bolt is a nod to the Bowie song that inspired the title. Overall, I tried to create a cover that is young, bold, in-your-face, and sells the rock’n’roll dream.
- Details
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- Dimensions
- 135 x 210 mm
- No. pages
- 320
- Special finishes
- Matt lamination
- Credits
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- Internal Design
- Kerry Cooke
- Illustration
- Jess Cruickshank
- Typesetting
- Kerry Cooke
- Printing
- Griffin Press
- Author
- Frances Chapman
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