- Designed by
- Allison Colpoys
- Category
- Best Designed Young Adult Cover
- Year
- 2015
- 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.
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Why We Took The Car is a coming-of-age story about the unlikely friendship between two unpopular high school kids, Mike and Tshick, who end up embarking on a crazy road-trip across Germany. I think this cover concept seemed to come together quite easily when I compare it to other titles I’ve worked on. I wanted to convey a sense of adventure, youth, small crappy car-ness and middle of nowhere-ness.
- Details
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- Dimensions
- 135 x 210 mm
- No. pages
- 256
- Special finishes
- Matt Lamination, Spot UV
- Credits
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- Internal Design
- Allison Colpoys
- Illustration
- Allison Colpoys
- Typesetting
- Allison Colpoys
- Author
- Wolfgang Herndorf