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The Glad Shout
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Designed by
Jenny Grigg
Category
Designers' Choice Cover of the Year
Year
2020
Publisher
Affirm Press

About the Designer

Jenny Grigg is an award winning Australian graphic designer who has worked in Sydney, London, Copenhagen and Melbourne. She has a PhD from RMIT University.

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Design Rationale

The Glad Shout is an extraordinary novel about motherhood and climate change that is poetic, confronting, raw and breathtakingly beautiful. The publisher hoped it would appeal to Mother’s Day buyers, so I was careful to convey the novel’s divergent qualities and produce an aesthetically appealing product. The delicate texture of tissue paper, which I’ve worked with before, perfectly captures the unique beauty and simplicity of the author’s voice. The design communicates the novel is personal but leaves room for audience interpretation. The form can be seen to resemble a woman, and her turned head could suggest she’s cradling a baby.

Details
Dimensions
234 x 153 mm
No. pages
320
Credits
Internal Design
Jenny Grigg
Illustration
Jenny Grigg
Typesetting
J&M Typesetting
Printing
1010 Printing
Author
Alice Robinson