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You Can Change the World
  • Shortlisted

Designed by
Astred Hicks, Design Cherry, Elysia Clapin
Category
Best Designed Children's Non-Fiction Illustrated Book
Year
2020
Publisher
Pantera 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…

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ILLUSTRATOR/COVER DESIGNER

Children can make positive change through small actions in their everyday lives. I wanted to explore this idea in the cover by illustrating the typography and incorporating a scattering of small activities (like beekeeping). Showing that some letters can remain the same while you change others to do good.

INTERNALS DESIGNER

I had the joy of working with an entire illustrated alphabet, accompanying plain font, sixty bespoke small illustrations and ten gorgeous feature portraits for these internals. I used bright earthy colours with fun fonts and layouts to create unique, varied pages that kids will love looking at.

Details
Dimensions
247 x 184 mm
No. pages
224
Credits
Internal Design
Elysia Clapin
Illustration
Astred Hicks, Design Cherry
Typesetting
Elysia Clapin
Printing
Shenzhen Jinhao Colour Printing
Author
Lucy Bell