Sue Dani

Sue is an award-winning educational book designer with over 15 years experience in educational publishing. Her design career began when an opportunity arose in a niche publishing house working with the challenges of magazine design and layout. This was the springboard that propelled her to work across the gamut of design, art direction, illustration, printing […]

Mary Callahan

Mary has been designing books for more than 20 years. Her passion for this pursuit has resulted in a high profile throughout the publishing industry and is recognized by the many awards her book designs have received. Since expanding her practice, she designs for a wide range of clients including art galleries, museums and private […]

Louisa Maggio

After designing more than 500 book covers, Louisa joined the team at Penguin Random House in 2016 in the Adult Publishing Department as an In-House designer, where she is working on an array of fiction and non-fiction titles.  

Sandra Nipperess

Since 1996, Sandra has worked with the Self Publishing community offering a concept to completion service incl. design, illustration, layout, editing, proofreading and print broking. Managing the publishing process of: poetry books to historical diaries; memoirs of WWI and WWII veterans; research volumes; short stories; tourism publications; college year books and children’s books, to name […]

Megan Ellis

Megan is a typesetter and pre-press operator based in Melbourne. She’s an InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator pro and wears many hats along the publishing process, including image work and preparing and outputting files for print, and has an extensive knowledge of pre-press. Megan works on illustrated and non-illustrated titles.

Alex Fleischer

I am a thinker, dealing with the inherent meaning of things. I equally enjoy the creation and analysis of design to explore the ways in which information, values, and emotions can be visually expressed. As a problem solver, I am eager to take on a challenge and strive for highest quality outcomes whether it’s visual-, […]

Nada Backovic

Nada Backovic is an award-winning Sydney based book designer and illustrator with more than 25 years’ experience working within publishing. Nada works across a broad range of genres, including, fiction, non-fiction, illustrated books and textbooks. Nada, who is originally from London, worked in house at Random House UK and was the Design Manager at Allen […]

Philip Campbell

Phil has been designing books, amongst other things, for over 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. His work focuses mainly on non-fiction covers and illustrated book designs. His cover designs include a range of non-fiction genres […]

Michael Gibb

With a career including stints at several studios in the UK and Australia, I am now Head of Design and Marketing at the iconic Heide Museum of Modern Art in Naarm/Melbourne. With experience in a breadth of design disciplines, the core of my practice centres on typography, brand and publishing for art and culture. Projects […]

Hannah Janzen

Hannah is an award winning, senior book designer based in Sydney, Australia. She has experience in a wide range of genres including fiction, non-fiction, cook books and illustrated books with a particular passion for children’s picture books, children’s fiction and YA. Hannah’s design work has been recognised for a number of industry awards including Young […]

Imogen Stubbs

Imogen is the art director at Text Publishing. She manages the design and production team while also designing covers for literary fiction, non-fiction, young adult and middle grade titles. In 2015 she was shortlisted for Young Designer of the Year at the Australian Book Design Awards. Previously she designed and art directed the literary magazines […]

Tess McCabe

In addition to designing books for a range of publishing houses, Tess frequently works with small businesses and individuals who are interested in self-publishing. Not only can she design striking book covers and internal layouts, but can advise on printing, marketing and distribution options. An experienced publisher herself, Tess is the founder of Creative Minds, […]