ABDA Blog
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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. … Read more
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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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Sam Cooney
Sam Cooney runs not-for-profit literary organisation TLB, which produces a quarterly literary magazine The Lifted Brow, publishes books under its new Brow Books imprint, posts commentary and criticism online, stages events, runs writing prizes, and more. He’s publisher-in-residence at RMIT…
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Corey James
Corey James is an Australian graphic designer specialising in editorial and visual identity design. He previously worked in New York City with Hubert & Fischer designing catalogues and exhibition materials for artists. He now resides in Melbourne working as a…
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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…
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Andy Warren
Andy is an award winning Melbourne based designer. After graduating from RMIT in 2013, Andy interned then eventually worked as a designer at Hardie Grant Books. Working across a range of non-fiction titles, the work produced here led Andy to…
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Stuart Geddes
Stuart Geddes is a graphic designer and occasional publisher, mostly of books, and occasionally other kinds of projects (magazines and journals, exhibitions and websites). He also co-publishes/edits/designs/prints motorcycle magazine Head Full of Snakes, and is an industry fellow, researcher and…
