ABDA Blog
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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… Read more
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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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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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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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Charmaine Cave
Cave Design is an award-winning graphic design studio which was founded by Charmaine Cave in 1997. Charmaine has over 26 years of book design experience, creating innovative and effective solutions for local, national and international publishers and self-publishers. She is…
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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…
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Laura Thomas
Laura is a Melbourne-based book designer. She has a number of years of experience working across a wide variety of titles as an in-house designer at Penguin Random House, and is now a senior designer at Scribe Publications.
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Anna Maley-Fadgyas
Over the first seven years of her career Anna worked in two design studios, had a freelance design business and became a magazine designer. Over the following eight years Anna took up the role of designer for a university publishing…
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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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Amy Daoud
Amy Daoud is a freelance book designer based in Sydney. Her publishing career began in 2011 when she joined Walker Books Australia where she spent six and a half years creating covers and internal design for children’s illustrated books, junior…
