- Designed by
- Allison Colpoys
- Category
- Best Designed Non-Fiction Book
- Year
- 2017
- Publisher
- Hachette Australia
About the Designer
Allison Colpoys is an award-winning designer and illustrator, and the Art Director at Scribe Publications. Her picture books include The Underwater Fancy-dress Parade, Under the Love Umbrella, If All the World Were… and All the Ways To Be Smart. As well as receiving numerous Australian Book Design Awards for her illustration and cover design, she has won the CBCA Crichton Award for Best New Talent and two Australian Book Industry Awards.
View profile- Design Rationale
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My brief was to ‘create striking visuals playing off the strong title and for it to be a simple text-led design’, which I thought was the perfect brief for Maxine’s powerful memoir. Reading this memoir made me feel so many things I almost burst. I knew the title needed to have maximum impact, be bold and proud. I then decided to create a drop shadow for each letter and fill them with abstract, energetic patterns and intense colours to create a sense that there is so much going on beneath the surface that each of the letters may also burst.
- Details
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- Dimensions
- 153 x 234 mm
- No. pages
- 272
- Special finishes
- 3c colour printing (1 fluro) on uncoated stock + clear foil
- Credits
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- Internal Design
- Bookhouse Sydney
- Illustration
- Allison Colpoys
- Typesetting
- Bookhouse Sydney
- Printing
- Griffin Press
- Author
- Maxine Beneba Clarke