ABDA Blog
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Kristy Lund-White
Kristy is a cheerful freelance graphic designer, based in Melbourne. She has been working in publishing since 2003 and specialises in children’s titles and creative lettering. Read more
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Akiko Chan
Akiko Chan is a designer and art director based in Melbourne, Australia. She currently works part-time at Schwartz Books and has a freelance practice that focuses on publication and identity design. Driven by content, Akiko uses a wide range of…
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Sandra Nipperess
Since 1996, Sandra has worked with the Self Publishing community offering a concept to completion service incl. design, illustration, layout, editing, proofreading and print broking. Managing the publishing process of: poetry books to historical diaries; memoirs of WWI and WWII…
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Pooja Desai
Pooja is an award-winning designer currently working as the Design Manager for Hardie Grant Egmont. Before stumbling upon her one true love – publishing – her design career has spanned across packaging, product, magazines, marketing and digital. In her free…
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Brett Weekes
Brett is Creative Director for book publisher Brow Books and literary journal The Lifted Brow. He has a background in designing for the Arts, Cultural, Not-for-Profit and Publishing sectors.
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Klarissa Pfisterer
With a background in design and branding in Australia and the UK, Klarissa launched Pfisterer + Freeman in 2000, specialising in book projects for publishers big and small and for independent authors with an idea or story to share. She…
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Holly Dunn
Holly creates beautiful illustrated book covers to help readers discover new and exciting literature. She is inspired by vintage design and illustration, especially decorative Art Nouveau book bindings and patterns. In 2018 Holly switched from pen and paper…
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Nat Carroll
Nat is an independent art director, designer and illustrator with a warm, playful, expressive style. Based on the south-east coast of Australia, Nat works remotely, for clients who’ve included the ABC, triple j, Lorde, Neil Finn & Paul Kelly,…
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Louisa Maggio
After designing more than 500 book covers, Louisa joined the team at Penguin Random House in 2016 in the Adult Publishing Department as an In-House designer, where she is working on an array of fiction and non-fiction titles. …
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Jenny Grigg
Jenny Grigg is an award winning Australian graphic designer who has worked in Sydney, London, Copenhagen and Melbourne. She has a PhD from RMIT University.
