ABDA Blog
-
2026 EARLY BIRD awards tickets ON SALE now!
Early Bird Tickets Are Now on Sale! Celebrate the best in book design at the 74th Australian Book Design Awards 2025 and grab your discounted tickets before they sell out! Date: Friday, 8 May 2026 Location: Terminus… Read more
-
The 74th Australian Book Design Awards Shortlist
Congratulations to all of this year’s shortlisted designers. Our esteemed judging panel worked through a very impressive longlist, to arrive at a shortlist of original, creative and beautiful books. The full shortlist is available for download…
-
Meet the judges for 2026!
Meet the Judges for 2026! The ABDA committee is thrilled to introduce this year’s esteemed panel of judges for the 2026 awards: David Campbell @inksniffer (Creative Director and designer)Duncan Blachford @duncanblachford (Designer and founder, Typography Studio)…
-
The 74th Australian Book Design Awards Longlist
ABDA is thrilled to present the Longlist for the 74th Australian Book Design Awards. This year’s longlist showcases the most original, beautiful and inspiring books published in Australia in 2025. Let’s celebrate the creativity and craftsmanship behind these…
-
Entries are now open for the student categories for the 74th Australian Book Design Awards.
The ABDA committee is excited to announce that the 74th Australian Book Design Awards are now open for student submissions! The competition is open to books designed by students for the first time in Australia between 1 January…
-
Entries are now open for the 74th Australian Book Design Awards!
Designers, It’s Your Time! Entries are now open for the 74th ABDA Awards. We’re thrilled to announce that the 74th Australian Book Design Awards are officially open for submissions! We can’t wait to see the amazing creativity and…
-
ABDA Annual General Meeting 2025
Save the date! ABDA’s Annual General Meeting is on Monday 25 August 2025 at 5:30pm and all professional members are invited. We’ll be voting in a new committee and saying goodbye to some of our incredible outgoing members. The…
-
2025 ABDA Award Winners
Drumroll, please! We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 73rd Australian Book Design Awards! Congratulations to all of the shortlisted and winning designers for the 73rd Australian Book Design Awards. A special thank you to our 2025 judges for…
-
EARLY BIRD awards tickets ON SALE now!
Early Bird Tickets Are Now on Sale! Celebrate the best in book design at the 73rd Australian Book Design Awards 2025 and grab your discounted tickets before they sell out! Date: Friday, 23 May 2025 Location: Mountain Goat…
-
The 73rd Australian Book Design Awards Shortlist
Congratulations to all of this year’s shortlisted designers. Our hard-working judges whittled down an impressive longlist, to arrive at a shortlist of original, creative and beautiful books. The full shortlist is available for download here. The…
