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The Sound of the Dark
  • Highly Commended

Designed by
Regine Abos
Category
Best Designed Children's Fiction Book
Year
2020
Publisher
100 Story Building

About the Designer

Reg is an award-winning designer and lecturer who runs the design consultancy Studio Regina. Her passion and expertise lie in book design, having worked extensively with publishers such as Oxford University Press, Black Dog Books (an imprint of Walker Books) and UNICEF. Reg also lectures in Data Visualisation, her other big passion. She runs a blog called Collected, where she designs info graphics on everything from hot chocolates she consumes to the songs stuck in her head.

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Design Rationale

The brief was to convey the theme “creepy horror.” Working closely with the cover illustrator, we came up with the concept of a haunted house filled with creepy portraits and a monster in the shadows. The monster is blind printed with spot varnish so it only appears when light hits the cover from certain angles. The creatures in the portraits were peppered throughout the interiors in unexpected places. A challenge was to incorporate the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure and flipbook features. This was addressed by using the same hand-rendered display typeface in a condensed version for CYOA to minimise visual clutter.

Details
Dimensions
153 x 234 mm
No. pages
144
Special finishes
Spot varnish
Credits
Internal Design
Regine Abos
Illustration
Daniel Gray-Barnett
Typesetting
Regine Abos
Printing
Griffin Press
Author
Various