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2021 Australian Book Design Awards

The ABDA Committee is delighted to announce the 69th Australian Book Design Awards are now open for submissions! The Australian Book Design Awards celebrate the best of the best of Australian book design each year. The competition is open to books designed and published for the first time in Australia between 1 January and 31 […]

Booktopia’s September Cover Round-up

We’ve reached a huge week in the Australian publishing calendar, with books from some of the country’s biggest authors hitting shelves everywhere. Booktopia’s Brand and Content Manager, Mark Harding, took ABDA through his reasons for loving the cover designs of these highly anticipated titles – he says it’s always exciting to finally see them in […]

Printing the 2020 ABDA Book Design Awards Catalogue

This year’s ABDA Book Design Awards catalogue is truly a thing of beauty, inside and out. Designed by the 2019 Emerging Designer of the Year Jessica Horrocks, ABDA recently visited the wonderful Ligare Book Printers in Sydney to watch as the 2020 catalogue was produced in all its holographic glory. As a Gold Sponsor of […]

Q&A with Emerging Designer nominee Akiko Chan

The Penguin Random House Australia Emerging Designer of the Year Award at this years ABDA Awards features two incredibly talented shortlisted entrants. ABDA spoke with the finalists – Vanessa Masci and Akiko Chan – on their journey into Book Design, favourite projects and their go-to fonts! Today, we hear from Akiko Chan. When did you […]

Q&A with Emerging Designer nominee Vanessa Masci

The Designers’ Choice Awards Voting Form

For this extraordinary year only, we have adapted our voting method so our ABDA members are able to vote for the Designers’ Choice awards online in the lead up to the 2020 online awards broadcast. The Designers’ Choice Awards are voted by our Professional Individual Members and will be announced at the time of the […]

Designers’ Choice 2020

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One Year On with 2019 Emerging Designer, Jessica Horrocks

As we look forward to the 68th ABDA Awards later this year and celebrate our shortlisted designers, we thought it would be a good time to check in with the 2019 winner of the Emerging Designer Award – Jessica Horrocks. ABDA spoke with Jessica earlier last month to reflect on her win, her recent work […]

Design Elements Showcase Series

The ABDA Committee are excited to announce submissions are now open for the next annual ABDA Showcase. This year our Showcase will be a four-part series focusing on the design elements of Colour, Pattern, Line and Shape. ABDA Showcases are online exhibitions that celebrate the work of our Members through the lens of one theme […]

How the Australian Book Community is Responding to the Pandemic with Creativity

The outbreak of COVID-19 and efforts to slow the spread of the virus has seen the rapid shutdown of workplaces, book launches and events across our creative community. ABDA itself has postponed our annual Book Design Awards until later in 2020. Many of us are turning to creativity in isolation, with designers continuing to share […]

Meet Your Judges — The Australian Book Design Awards 2020

The ABDA committee is pleased to announce the judges of the 2020 awards. With experience across a wide range of publishing, design, academic and retail platforms, we’re thrilled to have them on board to uncover the best and brightest, most original and beautiful designs of the last year. SUZANNE DEAN has worked in at […]

Q&A with Freda Chiu

Freda Chiu is a Sydney-based freelance illustrator, with a diverse client list including Penguin Random House, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Google and Sony. She is also an Educator at The University of Technology Sydney. We spoke with Freda to hear more about her journey into the book industry, her creative process, and working on ‘Good […]