- Designed by
- Laura Thomas
- Category
- Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover
- Year
- 2021
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
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.
View profile- Design Rationale
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The brief for The Morbids was to sit between literary and commercial with nods to the themes of anxiety and holidays. Glitter was important to the story and I liked the image of a tropical paradise juxtaposed against the dark title. I roughly cut out letters and scanned them, along with loads of glitter – my office was very messy (the final glitter image on the cover is from Getty). First time doing a die-cut cover. Spot UV over the matte laminate to bring out the sparkle in some of the glitter pieces, to express the book’s smart and quirky
- Details
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- Dimensions
- 153 x 234 mm
- No. pages
- 368
- Credits
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- Internal Design
- Laura Thomas
- Typesetting
- Bookhouse Sydney
- Printing
- Griffin Press
- Author
- Ewa Ramsey