- Designed by
- Hazel Lam
- Category
- Best Designed Young Adult Cover
- Year
- 2021
- Publisher
- Angus & Robertson an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Australia
About the Designer
Hazel is a senior book designer at HarperCollins ANZ, where she entered the publishing industry in 2013. Her experience spreads across fiction, non-fiction, illustrated books, children’s illustrated books and YA. In her previous life she has worked in motion graphics, broadcast design, magazine publishing and advertising for various clients in both Sydney and London. She loves to obsessively illustrate patterns, eat delicious foods and tell cheese jokes to anyone who will listen.
View profile- Design Rationale
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Growing up playlists were all about cassette tapes, CDs and I even experienced the short lived mini-disc, so it was a challenge designing this cover without any of these references as playlists are created with a click of a button now. I wanted to design a cover which gave the sense of intimacy and distance equally featuring the two main characters with technology front and centre, as it was in a way a character in the book. The illustration is digitally drawn but includes rough edges and brushstrokes, to give a human element and to add warmth to the cover.
- Details
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- Dimensions
- 128 x 198 mm
- No. pages
- 434
- Special finishes
- Matt Lamination and Spot Gloss UV
- Credits
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- Illustration
- Hazel Lam
- Typesetting
- Kelli Lonergan
- Printing
- McPherson's Printing Group
- Author
- Tara Eglington