- Designed by
- Astred Hicks, Design Cherry
- Category
- Best Designed Young Adult Cover
- Year
- 2021
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan Australia
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…
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Shocking pink with vibrating red pulse with violence while three brolga’s flee, their white colouring finding hope. Hand-lettering intertwines the elements of family.
I had been illustrating scenes of rolling hills and menacing old houses in the Victorian country side but it wasn’t working. The publisher and I discussed the author’s skill at infusing the landscape with pathos which envelopes the story’s multi-generational trauma.
So I stopped and re-read the manuscript. Upon review one scene involving brolga birds struck me and I KNEW it was the cover.
Illustrated during lock down my distance-education child provided intern assistance.
- Details
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- Dimensions
- 129 x 198 mm
- No. pages
- 368
- Special finishes
- Matt lamination
- Credits
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- Internal Design
- Astred Hicks, Design Cherry
- Illustration
- Astred Hicks, Design Cherry
- Typesetting
- Midland Typesetters
- Printing
- IVE Group
- Author
- Christie Nieman