Some covers I designed & illustrated (in-house and freelance) for Allen & Unwin.Above, adult fiction, below young adult. Click on images to enlarge
Illustrations for Pagan's Daughter (cover pictured above centre ). Pen and ink with collage.
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Text design for Red Spikes (cover pictured above first image).
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Cover and endpapers for a young adult novel (Random House). I somehow ended up in the niche of young adult fiction, which doesn't bother me at all. Generally, kids/young adult covers allow greater creative freedom with typography and illustration. Young adult fiction is often quite dark. Teenagers are quite dark, wallowing in all their hormones, so I guess this is unsurprising.
I used the flourish (made by pasting together a couple of printer's ornaments from a typeface) from the front cover and endpapers as a chapter dinkus in typesetting. I love a deep text indent.
The book is narrated by Sophie (shown on the cover writing in her diary) so we decided to include an extra title page (after the book title) as if it was actually Sophie's diary. The cats and puffin hang around in the story.
