Awards Book Archive

The End
  • Shortlisted

Designed by
Sandy Cull
Category
Best Designed Non-Fiction Book
Year
2014
Publisher
Penguin Random House Australia

About the Designer

Sandy has been designing books for more than 20 years. In 2004 and 2005, she won the Best Designed Book of the Year at the Book Design Awards. In 2011 she was the 7th person to be inducted into the Australian Book Design Hall of Fame. Sandy was a founding ABDA committee member, has been a guest speaker at writers’ festivals and an occasional guest lecturer on book design at secondary and tertiary level. She’s still planning to blow the…

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Design Rationale

A book about death and dying and how it is experiences throughout the world . . . not depressing but more so, an analysis of mankindís many and varied responses to it. I supplied several concepts . . . a kicked bucket, a collaged skull, a leaf skeleton . . . but the fill stop came through. Lots of fun.

Details
Dimensions
165 x 233 mm
No. pages
272
Credits
Internal Design
Sandy Cull
Author
Bianca Nogrady