ABDA Blog
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Marley Berger
Marley is a Melbourne based book designer. With nearly nine years experience she has worked across a wide range of genres from literary and commercial fiction to children’s and adult illustrated titles. When not wrangling her two young children she… Read more
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Olga Lavecchia
Olga has been been working in the educational publishing industry for 16 years. Beginning in marketing then moving into book design/production. Her role predominantly comprises of art direction, managing and mentoring. Olga works with a team of leading educational book…
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Kerry Cooke
Kerry has almost 25 years of experience in design and typesetting, having worked in print, advertising and publishing. She now combines this wealth of knowledge into the one business offering services to all businesses, be they big or small. Kerry…
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Imogen Stubbs
Imogen is the art director at Text Publishing, where she has worked as a book designer and production manager since 2011. She manages the book and marketing design program while also designing covers for literary fiction, non-fiction, young adult and…
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Tess McCabe
Graphic designer Tess McCabe founded Creative Minds Publishing, which aims to produce high-quality books and resources for creative professionals and their businesses. In addition to designing books for a range of publishing houses, Tess consults with small businesses and individuals…
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Luke Harris
Luke Harris grew up in outback NSW in a small mining town, and studied at Monash University. He has run his own print design practice for over 20 years and largely specialises in book design.
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Romy Moshinsky
Real Film and Publishing was established in 2012 by Romy Moshinsky, a writer and editor committed to producing beautifully designed non-fiction books. She works in collaboration with writer Georgie Raik-Allen and a team of talented book designers and photographers. Real…
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Bec Yule
Bec has been designing books for over 15 years, including working as an in-house book designer for Pearson Education Australia. Freelance since 2002, she has designed books for Macmillan Education Australia, Mallon Publishing, Insight Publications, CUP and other commercial publishing…
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Allison Colpoys
Allison Colpoys is an award-winning designer and illustrator, and the Art Director at Scribe Publications. Her picture books include The Underwater Fancy-dress Parade, Under the Love Umbrella, If All the World Were… and All the Ways To Be Smart. As…
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Philip Campbell
Philip 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…