ABDA Blog
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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… Read more
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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…
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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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Evi O.
Evi O. established her reputation for a strong design aesthetic and collaborative spirit during a decade at Penguin Books, most notably creating award-winning illustrated books in the fields of food, design, interiors, architecture, art, garden and wellness. Her art and…
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Zoë Sadokierski
Zoë is an award-winning designer and writer, and the current President of ABDA. Zoë lectures in the School of Design at the University of Technology Sydney where she runs a research studio investigating the evolution of books in the digital…