Awards Book Archive

Stars Like Us
  • Commended

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.

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Design Rationale

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
Dimensions
135 x 210 mm
No. pages
320
Special finishes
Matt lamination
Credits
Internal Design
Kerry Cooke
Illustration
Jess Cruickshank
Typesetting
Kerry Cooke
Printing
Griffin Press
Author
Frances Chapman