- Designed by
- Sandy Cull
- Category
- Best Designed Young Adult Cover
- Year
- 2014
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan 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…
View profile- Design Rationale
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The Messenger is about an ordinary cab driver who becomes a wonderfully positive influence on the lives of the various people he meets. He receives cryptic instructions written on the four ace playing cards and is spurred on to investigate. I shot the ace of hearts and then photoshopped it into submission.
- Details
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- Dimensions
- 128 x 198 mm
- No. pages
- 400
- Special finishes
- Matt laminate and spot gloss
- Credits
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- Author
- Markus Zusak
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