How I mucked up Ickypedia
A blog post by Bruno Herfst about the making of Ickypedia. Bruno won the Best Designed Children’s Fiction Book at the 2016 ABDA awards for this work. WARNING: THIS IS A ONE-SIDED VIEW OF THE CREATION OF A BOOK. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, CAN YOU ASSUME THIS IS THE COMPLETE STORY. THERE WERE MANY IMPORTANT PEOPLE […]
The 2017 ABDA Awards President’s Report
The ABDA catalogue celebrates the books shortlisted in the 65th annual Australian Book Design Awards. Selected from 341 entries submitted across 16 categories, these designs are the cream of the crop of books published between 1 January and 31 December 2016. Judged by our formidable panel of designers and design lovers: Reg Abos, Murray Batten, […]
Staff Picks—Readings Bookstore Favourite Book Cover Designs
This is the first in an ongoing series of interviews where we ask staff at bookstores to tell us about their favourite book designs. This month we hear from staff at Readings Bookstores. Bronte Coates, Readings Digital Content Coordinator: My favourite book covers are tactile and bold, with clever references to the book’s interior. One […]
Q & A with Andy Warren
Andy Warren is one of two designers shortlisted in the Young Designer of the Year category for the Australian Book Design Awards 2017. Before the winner is announced on Friday 26 May at Giant Dwarf in Sydney, we wanted to get to know more about Andy and his work. How did you end up in […]
The Power of a Cover
Award-winning book designer and president of the Australian Book Designers Association, Zoë Sadokierski dives deep into her love for print and reveals why many of us do judge a book by its cover. Edible Garden Design designed by Evi Oetomo, All Is Given designed by Alissa Dinallo Instead of cats and over-styled food, my Instagram […]
Q & A with Ella Egidy
Ella Egidy is one of two designers shortlisted in the Young Designer of the Year category for the Australian Book Design Awards 2017. Before the winner is announced on Friday 26 May at Giant Dwarf in Sydney, we wanted to get to know more about Ella and her work. How did you end up in […]
The Making of Begin, End, Begin
A blog post by Danielle Binks. A new anthology of #LoveOzYA short stories is being released in May by HarperCollins. Editor Danielle Binks runs us through how the concept and design for the cover came together. To understand the concept and brief for the cover of Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology, you have to […]
Senior Book Designer, Captain Honey Publishing
Are you ready to jump ship? Get on board with Captain Honey, an innovative publishing company based in the beautiful hinterland town of Bangalow in the northern rivers (15 minutes drive from Byron Bay). We create illustrated books for the mass market and provide publishing support to self-publishers. We need an experienced book designer to […]
Q & A with Phil Campbell
Phil Campbell has been designing books, amongst other things, for 20 years. He worked previously as a designer for Text Media and EmeryStudio and spent time as a sessional lecturer in Communications design at RMIT. He works out of a shared studio space in Cremorne. Did you mean to end up as a book designer? […]
Diary of a Series Redesign
Allen & Unwin discuss the challenges and triumphs of redesigning the YA series The Hidden. In news just to hand: everybody in the entirety of the world judges books by their covers. That is what covers are for, to help the reader judge: What is this book and is it for me? The book cover […]
Q & A with Anna Maley-Fadgyas
Based in Perth, Anna Maley-Fadgyas has worked in design studios, designed surfing magazines and over the past decade, designed books for UWA Publishing. She now combines freelance life with being a mum. Did you mean to end up as a book designer? What was your trajectory? Layout has always been my favourite design discipline – at university […]
I took a holiday to the Melbourne Art Book Fair
A blog post by Garry Trinh The 2017 Melbourne Art Book Fair brought together over 200 established and emerging art publishers, artists, writers and designers for fifty diverse programs including free talks, workshops, book launches and performances. My holiday began at 4.30am, when I dragged 22kg of my self published photography books to Sydney airport […]