Original Typography Showcase
Designing ‘NGV Triennial 2017’
Featuring the work of over 100 artists and designers from 32 countries, the NGV Triennial exhibit surveyed the world of art and design, across cultures, scales, geographies and perspectives. The accompanying publication, ‘NGV Triennial 2017’, designed by Dirk Hiscock, captures the magnitude of the exhibition while offering an incredible piece of design in itself. Awarded […]
Designing ‘Basecamp’
An educational activity book to help manage anxiety won the Best Designed Educational Primary / Secondary Book award at the 2018 ABDA Awards. A collaborative effort, Leonardo Rocker and Lisa Diebold take us through this three year project. Basecamp® – A fun-filled adventure about managing anxiety – is the result of three years of collaborative […]
Original Typography Showcase
Submissions are open for the next ABDA Showcase… this time we’re putting original typography under the microscope. We’d like to invite all ABDA members to submit cover and/or text designs that feature original typography created by you, the designer. This includes hand-drawn type and lettering, to digitally created typography. Entries close on Sunday 29 October, with the Showcase […]
Designing ‘In the Dark Spaces’
Connecting to a manuscript and channeling that emotion into a cover design, Astred Hicks of Design Cherry shares how the dazzling and dark cover for ‘In the Dark Spaces’ came to be. It went on to win Best Young Adult Cover at the 2018 ABDA Awards. RTFB At a book design talk a quite few […]
Designing ‘The Gulf’
A winning combination of collage, paint and hand lettering resulted in this year’s design for Best Literary Fiction Cover at the 2018 ABDA Awards. Designer Emily O’Neill talks us through her process and shares some designs that didn’t make the cut. The brief I received for the cover design of Anna Spargo-Ryan’s The Gulf was […]
Designing ‘The Student’
ABDA member and vice-president Alissa Dinallo takes us through the design of her award winning cover for ‘The Student’, joint winner of the Booktopia Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover at the 2018 ABDA awards. The process of designing The Student was incredibly smooth sailing. When I came to write this blog post and looked back […]
Q & A with Frank Stillitano
Frank Stillitano is the Creative Director at Flux Visual Communication, an Adelaide based graphic design studio that has been working collaboratively with marketing professionals to develop creative and effective communication projects since 2003. His work also ventures into publication and book design, and today we find out more about this side of his practice. Did […]
The Hot Desk #4: morning routines of book designers
We continue to peek into members’ work spaces and routines: today two Sydney-based freelancers. Lisa White Freelance designer, Sydney Being relatively new to freelance I have been trying out different approaches to getting started in the morning. Very few days, and sometimes my location, are ever the same. However, I have noticed a couple of […]
Q & A with Charmaine Cave
Charmaine Cave is a Perth based book designer and owner of Cave Design, the graphic design studio she founded in 1997. She’s been involved in the WA branch of AGDA for many years, serving as their president from 2012–2013 and in 2014 co-wrote the book ‘Swanning Around Perth: An Exploration of the Black Swan in our City’ with Alex […]
Designer/Typesetter for Black Inc.
Black Inc. is seeking an experienced designer/typesetter to join their busy team on a part-time or full-time basis (to be negotiated), based in Carlton, Victoria. Reporting to the Head of Production, this role supports the editorial, sales and marketing teams with cover, text design, typesetting, advertising and marketing design duties across all of Black Inc’s […]
The Judging Process with Coralie Bickford-Smith
Each year ABDA invites a panel of designers and publishing industry professionals to judge the Book Design Awards, including one international judge. Previously, Jessica Hische, David Pearson, Jon Gray and Dan Wagstaff have lent us their expertise. This year we were honoured to have award-winning book designer and senior designer at Penguin Books UK Coralie […]