Awards Book Archive

The Big Dry
  • Shortlisted

Designed by
Darren Holt
Category
Best Designed Children's Fiction Book
Year
2014
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Design Rationale

With no budget for embellishments of any kind, we showed our love for this beautiful and haunting tale in the spare composition, haunting posture, apocalyptic palette and delicate and understated typography. It’s hard to point to one thing that makes this design outstanding – it’s the coming together of all those choices that make this design tenderly sophisticated in a genre that prefers to be sensationalistic and exaggerated.

Details
Dimensions
128 x 198 mm
No. pages
224
Credits
Typesetting
HarperCollins Design Studio
Author
Tony Davis