Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book 2026
Finalist
Designer: Alan Deare & Dave McDonald (Area Design)
Title: Kim: A Journey Between Worlds
Publisher: Ugly Hill Press
Format: 234 x 152 mm, 236pp, section sewn with separate ends, flexibound cover with round back and head and tail bands. A cool white uncoated paper stock was combined with a rich charcoal spot colour that runs throughout the text sections of the book along with the in-line images, giving them a subtle sepia tone.
Typography: Body Type: Franziska Pro, 9.6pt/12.5pt
Growing up flashbacks: Xanh Mono, 9.8pt/12.5pt
Correspondence / captions / subheadings: Söhne, various sizes
Feature Type: GT Flexa, various sizes
The driver for the typography is a spartan sensibility, reflecting the hard, minimalist nature of both climbing and the author’s upbringing, combined with a need to visually represent a variety of ‘voices’ interspersed throughout.
Publisher’s Brief
“The brief was to not make just another mountaineering book, or another misery memoir. It should be more of an adventure book.”
