- Designed by
- Allison Colpoys
- Category
- Best Designed Non-Fiction Cover
- Year
- 2018
- Publisher
- Scribe Publications
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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Jessica’s collection of personal essays details her journey through postpartum depression and the slow, complex process of reassembling what it fractured. I was lucky to be provided with the outtakes from a photoshoot Jessica had with photographer Heather Lighton to use on the front cover. They were so beautiful and after reading the manuscript I thought I would like to try to create a collage from the images to create a sense of tension and fracture. The first essay centers around the Maribyrnong river, which is why I chose the river water motif to tie the collage together.
- Details
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- Dimensions
- 135 x 210 mm
- No. pages
- 288
- Special finishes
- Printed reverse of board (with machine varnish)
- Credits
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- Internal Design
- Allison Colpoys
- Illustration
- Allison Colpoys
- Printing
- Griffin Press
- Author
- Jessica Friedmann