- Designed by
- Astred Hicks, Design Cherry
- Category
- Best Designed Young Adult Cover
- Year
- 2021
- Publisher
- University of Queensland Press
About the Designer
Astred is a freelance book designer whose distinctive work for a number of publishing houses covers fiction, non-fiction and educational, with a special emphasis on young adult fiction. She is a sometime lecturer in graphic design and was the lead author of the popular text for tertiary students, ‘Graphic design {Australian style manual}’. Astred has won a number of book design awards during her 14 year career in publishing. Recently she has branched out into illustration as well as design…
View profile- Design Rationale
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This one captures the fervour of young people fighting for the future of the world. But the design didn’t come easily, experimenting with tone in search of a powerful connection with the reader. Finding the perfect image from a climate-change protest was the turning point. The gritty back streets of Paris, filled with echoes of revolutions past, were my inspiration. Starting with a halftone treatment of the image, I used hand-lettering and hand-coloured highlights to create an atmosphere of photocopied posters, subversive graffiti and noisy activism. In Paris the young protagonist has put aside romantic dreams and found her voice.
- Details
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- Dimensions
- 129 x 198 mm
- No. pages
- 272
- Credits
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- Internal Design
- Astred Hicks, Design Cherry
- Illustration
- Astred Hicks, Design Cherry
- Typesetting
- Post Pre-press Group
- Printing
- McPherson's Printing Group
- Author
- Kate O'Donnell