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Designed by
Pooja Desai, Kristy Lund-White
Category
Best Designed Children's Non-Fiction Illustrated Book
Year
2020
Publisher
Hardie Grant Children's Publishing

About the Designer

Pooja is an award-winning designer currently working as the Design Manager for Hardie Grant Egmont. Before stumbling upon her one true love – publishing – her design career has spanned across packaging, product, magazines, marketing and digital. In her free time, Pooja runs her own freelance business working with NGOs such as Footscray Community Arts Centre, Road to Refuge and Human Rights and Arts Film Festival.

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Design Rationale

This book is a progressive, feminist bible for pre-teens who menstruate, so the brief was to make the package stand out against its more traditional competition. We worked with production to come up with a small flexi-bound format with flaps that you could hide away but created a design that was so cute that you wouldn’t want to. The design aspiration was to be inviting but not too femme, so I designed a simple typographic cover with a paired back palette, and Kristy designed the internals reminiscent of a Memphis design style to create a fun reading experience.

Details
Dimensions
180 x 140 mm
No. pages
176
Special finishes
Flaps, Emboss, Spot UV
Credits
Internal Design
Kristy Lund-White
Illustration
Jenny Latham
Typesetting
Kristy Lund-White
Printing
Leo Paper Group
Author
Yumi Stynes and Dr Melissa Kang