ABDA Blog
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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… Read more
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Anne-Marie Reeves
Anne-Marie designs books for various publishers in Australia and overseas. She has worked in a variety of design, marketing and management roles for several leading Australian publishers including Cambridge, Oxford and Melbourne University Press, Penguin and Scribe. In 2010 she…
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Sandy Cull
Sandy has been designing books for more than 20 years. In 2004 and 2005, she won the Best Designed Book of the Year at the Book Design Awards. In 2011 she was the 7th person to be inducted into the…
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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…
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Susannah Low
Susannah has always loved books! With her Bachelor of Design in hand, she went on to work in-house as a Book Designer at Penguin Books, Pearson Education and Scholastic Australia. She now freelances full time from her Briar Hill studio,…
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Debra Billson
Debra has been designing books since Roxette had ‘The Look’. She spent her early career creating products for children as an art director and studio manager, until landing her dream job at Penguin Books. For almost a decade, this saw…
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Peter Long
Peter has been designing books for more than fifteen years, and until recently was Senior Designer at Black Inc.Books and the Art Director of The Monthly magazine. Before books he designed mostly for stage and film. He is also a…
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Josh Durham
Josh worked in magazine design before setting up his company Design by Committee under the mentorship of Australian book design luminary W.H. Chong. He draws upon a broad skill base to offer both illustrative and concept driven solutions to literary…
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W.H. Chong
W. H. Chong is the long-time design director at Text Publishing and designed their logo. In 2013 Chong was inducted into the Australian Book Design Hall of Fame. He is a founding member of ABDA, serving as Secretary from 2014…
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Simon Barnard
Simon was born and grew up in Tasmania. He is an author and illustrator. He lives in Melbourne with his girlfriend and a little dog.
