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