ABDA Blog
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Kristy Lund-White
Kristy is a cheerful freelance graphic designer, based in Melbourne. She has been working in publishing since 2003 and specialises in children’s titles and creative lettering. Read more
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Akiko Chan
Akiko Chan is a designer and art director based in Melbourne, Australia. She currently works part-time at Schwartz Books and has a freelance practice that focuses on publication and identity design. Driven by content, Akiko uses a wide range of…
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Pooja Desai
Pooja is an award-winning designer currently working as the Design Manager for Hardie Grant Egmont. Before stumbling upon her one true love – publishing – her design career has spanned across packaging, product, magazines, marketing and digital. In her free…
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Klarissa Pfisterer
With a background in design and branding in Australia and the UK, Klarissa launched Pfisterer + Freeman in 2000, specialising in book projects for publishers big and small and for independent authors with an idea or story to share. She…
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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. …
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Fiona Sinclair
I am inspired by design and education – designing, illustrating, creating, educating and sharing ideas. I enjoy collaborating and instigating projects with like minded people.
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Michelle Mackintosh
Michelle Mackintosh is an author, graphic designer and illustrator. She has worked on a number of illustrated books, including cookbooks and craft books. Michelle also designs stationery and logos. She is based in Melbourne, Australia.
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Jessica Lowe
Jessica is an award-winning Art Director and Graphic Designer — specialising in book and magazine design. With over 14 years of industry experience, she has worked in both studio and client-side environments, most recently as Designer at The Australian Ballet…
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Jessica Horrocks
Jessica is a designer and production coordinator at Text Publishing, where she has worked since 2015. Prior to this she had a brief stint in the design department of an advertising agency and a longer one in the production department…
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Duncan Blachford
Duncan is a designer with over eight years experience in the book publishing industry, having worked with Black Inc. books in Melbourne and Bloomsbury Publishing in London. He is currently undertaking a Master of Communication Design at RMIT University, and…
