Awards Book Archive

The Fogging
  • Longlisted

Designed by
Laura Thomas
Category
Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover
Year
2021
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.

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Design Rationale

The Fogging is set in Bali and the title refers to a pesticide smoke that envelops a resort. In a difficult process in consultation with the editor and author, a number of directions looking at smoke and fog were explored, while trying to keep it from looking sci-fi.

The water from a holiday pool, and some male feet dangling into the water was the final approach. A bold, confident, commercial feeling typeface was manipulated to interact with the water surface, and a spot gloss was put over the matte cover to pick up highlights in the reflections on the water.

Details
Dimensions
153 x 234 mm
No. pages
224
Credits
Internal Design
Laura Thomas
Typesetting
Laura Thomas
Printing
Griffin Press
Author
Luke Horton