ABDA Blog
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Lisa White
Lisa White is an award winning freelance designer with many years experience in the publishing industry. She previously worked inhouse for Scholastic, spent a decade with Allen & Unwin and most recently was Head of Design for HarperCollins Australia and… Read more
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Daniel New
Daniel works closely with publishers and authors to capture unique stories and bring their visions to life. He was previously art director and designer at Lantern, Penguin Books, where he worked for a decade with experts in food, lifestyle and…
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Emily O’Neill
Emily is a Sydney-based freelance book designer. She has previously worked in-house for Penguin Books and Allen & Unwin on a wide range of projects including commercial and literary fiction, children’s and illustrated lifestyle titles. She has also created designs…
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Nada Backovic
Nada Backovic is an award-winning book designer, graphic designer and illustrator with 20 years experience working with major publishers in Australia and UK.
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Hannah Janzen
Hannah is a Sydney-based book designer with an eye for detail and a passion for books. She has 12 years experience working in the Australian publishing industry. After working in a design studio for 6 years across a wide range…
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Robyn Greathead
With a background in advertising, working in agencies in New Zealand, London and Sydney, Robyn’s experience embraces media, marketing, production and design. She established Treehouse, her design and artwork studio, in the mid-90s playing to strengths of strategic design, typographic…
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Luke Causby
Luke has been designing books for over eighteen years. He spent the first six years of his career working in-house at HarperCollins Publishers, working on a diverse range of adult and children’s titles. Moving to London in 2003, Luke joined…
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Mark Campbell
Mark is Head of Design at HarperCollins ANZ and ABC Books. Over the past decade he has worked in design and project management across theatre, film, television, events, advertising and animation, and been a regular guest speaker for the Small…
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Astred Hicks
Astred is a freelance book designer whose distinctive work for a number of publishing houses covers fiction, non-fiction and educational, with a special emphasis on young adult fiction. She is a sometime lecturer in graphic design and was the lead…
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Bettina Kaiser
Bettina Kaiser is a designer and visual artist. She is passionate about art and design, and also about the environment and her community. Bettina has over twenty years of experience in designing for print and screen. She relocated from Germany…