The late Patrick Coyle was the inaugural inductee into the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) Hall of Fame in 1994, recognised as the first person given this lifetime achievement award for making significant contributions to Australian book design.
Patrick Coyle was one of publishing’s most versatile and respected book designers, through a 30 year career spanning book design, art direction, production, and education across the UK and Australia.Patrick Coyle brought a readiness to listen, and to home in on the essentials of each new book and project. To all his roles he brought a seemingly intuitive understanding of the needs of readers that was in fact the product of rich experience and selfless dedication to producing good books.