- Designed by
- Laura Thomas
- Category
- Best Designed Literary Fiction Cover
- Year
- 2019
- Publisher
- Scribe Publications
About the Designer
Laura is a Melbourne-based book designer. She has a number of years of experience working across a wide variety of titles as an in-house designer at Penguin Random House, and is now a senior designer at Scribe Publications.
View profile- Design Rationale
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The Dictionary of Animal Languages is a novel inspired by the story of the surrealist artist Leonora Carrington. We initially went through many rounds of cover concepts that drew upon Carrington’s art but these didn’t quite fit with the image the publisher and author had in mind. Revised concepts that involved collage and motifs with animals still conveyed the artist’s presence, while evoking a feeling of loss and solitude, both themes in the novel.
- Details
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- Dimensions
- 135 x 210 mm
- No. pages
- 320
- Special finishes
- CMYK with Matt Lamination and Spot UV Gloss
- Credits
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- Internal Design
- Laura Thomas
- Illustration
- Laura Thomas
- Typesetting
- Laura Thomas
- Printing
- Griffin Press
- Author
- Heidi Sopinka
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