Unboring Exploring: Designing the cover

The Early Harvest editors went through a very vigorous yet very colourful process of selecting a cover illustrator for Unboring Exploring.

Guided by designer Reg Abos, who designed last year’s spooky book ‘The Sound of the Dark’, the young editors went through the full book design process. From looking through illustrator portfolios, creating a design brief and choosing a font - everything they needed to know to help communicate the theme: Adventure.

After much deliberation the young editors finally selected the amazing Melbourne artist Kate Moon! Kate is an illustrator, character designer and 3D artist working across animation and print. You may recognise her work from the children’s book ‘Our Home, Our Heartbeat’. 

Here’s a sneak peak of some of her initial design concepts - we can’t wait to show you the final product very very soooooooon!

Unboring Exploring, which launches in January, is now available for preorder.