Q & A with Hazel Lam
Hazel Lam is one of two designers shortlisted in the Emerging Designer of the Year category for the Australian Book Design Awards 2018. Before the winner is announced on Friday 25 May at The Craft & Co in Melbourne, we wanted to get to know more about Hazel and her work. How did you end […]
Q & A with Grace West
Grace West is one of two designers shortlisted in the Emerging Designer of the Year category for the Australian Book Design Awards 2018. Before the winner is announced on Friday 25 May at The Craft & Co in Melbourne, we wanted to get to know more about Grace and her work. How did you end […]
Staff Picks—Sun Bookshop Favourite Book Covers
The latest in a series of interviews where we ask staff at bookstores to tell us about their favourite book designs. This month we hear from Kate O’Donnell and her colleagues at the Sun Bookshop, 10 Ballarat St, Yarraville. Kate O’Donnell’s picks Ickypedia by The Listies (Penguin Random House) Designed by Bruno Herfst & Richard Higgins The […]
ABDA & EWF Street Poster Collaboration
ABDA and the Emerging Writers Festival are partnering up on a street poster design event. We need fifteen book designers to design a street poster using a short text extract from one of the fifteen shortlisted entries of the Monash Prize for Emerging Writers. Posters will be plastered up on the Metro Tunnel hoardings on […]
Hall of Fame – Tony Palmer
Tony Palmer was awarded the ABDA Hall of Fame Award in 2016. Here we revisit the interview published in the 2016 awards catalogue by fellow Hall of Fame recipient and book designer W. H. Chong. Tony Palmer graduated from Monash University, Melbourne, in 1985 with an honours degree in Graphic Communication. He is the Executive Designer […]
Porto Summer School: a FORMative experience
A guest post by ABDA member Ella Egidy Melbourne winters can be long and dreary, with everyone recluse and huddled in their studios. How might an editorial designer thaw out? Cue European summer and Porto Design Summer School in Portugal – €1 espressos and pastel de natas as far as the eye can see. In […]
Q & A with Kristine Lindbjerg
Kristine Lindbjerg is a Danish graphic designer who now lives in Sydney. She established Lindbjerg Graphic in 2000 and has a range of international and Australian clients. Her books, visual identities, logos and brochures are heavily influenced by her Scandinavian upbringing. Did you mean to end up as a book designer? What was your trajectory? […]
Trading typographic transparency
This article is an edited excerpt from an ongoing research project on the role of contemporary book designers and their approaches to typesetting by ABDA member Nicole Arnett Phillips. Nicole is a designer with 18 years experience in visual communications, publication design and art direction. She believes designers should engage with self-initiated investigations, research and […]
The Hot Desk #3: morning routines of book designers
We continue to peek into members’ work spaces and routines: today two ABDA committee members. Alissa Dinallo Freelance book designer, Sydney I wake up at 5.45am (can’t help it). I go for walk to a coffee shop down the road and have a long black. I walk back to my apartment, open up my laptop […]
Meet Your Judges — The Australian Book Design Awards 2018
The ABDA committee is pleased to announce the judges of the 2018 awards. With experience across a wide range of publishing, design, academic and media platforms, we’re thrilled to have them on board to uncover the best and brightest, most original and beautiful designs of the last year. CORALIE BICKFORD-SMITH is a designer at […]
Q & A with Atosha McCaw
Atosha McCaw is the Director at The Timekeeper’s Assistant, a book design project she started on the side of her full-time job as a designer and marketer with sporting and membership-based organisations. She’s keen on books that share ideas, start conversations and keep history alive. Did you mean to end up as a book […]
All We Can’t See
Book designers Arielle Gamble and Daniel New collaborate on ‘All We Can’t See’, an exhibition and online gallery of artists’ responses to The Nauru Files. Luke Storrier, All Stitched Up, 01 October 2014 (2018), Chair, plaster, bandages, 840 x 600 x 500mm FILE DETAILS: 01 October 2014 | Risk rating: Minor | Type of incident: […]