- Designed by
- Pooja Desai
- Category
- Best Designed Children's Fiction Book
- Year
- 2020
- Publisher
- Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
About the Designer
Pooja is an award-winning designer currently working as the Design Manager for Hardie Grant Egmont. Before stumbling upon her one true love – publishing – her design career has spanned across packaging, product, magazines, marketing and digital. In her free time, Pooja runs her own freelance business working with NGOs such as Footscray Community Arts Centre, Road to Refuge and Human Rights and Arts Film Festival.
View profile- Design Rationale
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For this middle-grade fiction cover, I wanted the design to highlight the magic of the story and the lushness of Maggie’s illustration. I used a mix of hand lettering and computer-generated fonts which I wove through the plants to create a sense of depth and fullness onto the cover. To intensify the magical themes on this cover, I added white light flares and used a spot UV treatment over the flares, the oranges and the title. Although there was no artwork supplied for the back cover, I photoshopped together a lush plant scene based on Maggie’s front cover artwork.
- Details
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- Dimensions
- 198 x 128 mm
- No. pages
- 288
- Special finishes
- Spot UV
- Credits
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- Internal Design
- Pooja Desai
- Illustration
- Maggie Cole
- Typesetting
- Pat Cannon
- Printing
- Griffin Press
- Author
- Lisa Siberry