ABDA Blog
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Cathy Campbell
Cathy began her career in educational publications, then moved into magazine design. From there, she landed a few weeks temping as a book designer at HarperCollins Publishers which extended into a two year stint. Being part of a large design… Read more
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Gemma Banks
Gemma Banks is an award-winning book designer based in Sydney. Gemma graduated with a BFA First Class Honours in Graphic Design during which time she interned at Ilam Press designing and printing artist books. From there she worked in-house at…
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Fiona Sinclair
I am inspired by design and education – designing, illustrating, creating, educating and sharing ideas. I enjoy collaborating and instigating projects with like minded people.
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Michelle Mackintosh
Michelle Mackintosh is an author, graphic designer and illustrator. She has worked on a number of illustrated books, including cookbooks and craft books. Michelle also designs stationery and logos. She is based in Melbourne, Australia.
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Jessica Lowe
Jessica is an award-winning Art Director and Graphic Designer — specialising in book and magazine design. With over 14 years of industry experience, she has worked in both studio and client-side environments, most recently as Designer at The Australian Ballet…
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Jessica Horrocks
Jessica is a designer and production coordinator at Text Publishing, where she has worked since 2015. Prior to this she had a brief stint in the design department of an advertising agency and a longer one in the production department…
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Jens Troeger
Jens is an experienced software engineer by trade, a book lover, designer and typo-phile after hours. He has designed books for print and e-publishing, but his main interest lies with improving the intelligent book analysis and conversion software available through…
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Jess Cruickshank
Jess is an illustrator and letterer. Represented by Jacky Winter, she works mostly with clients in advertising and publishing. She has created covers for Hachette, Penguin Random House, Harper Collins and Smudge Publishing.
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Caren Florance
Caren Florance has been interweaving multiple freelance careers for around 30 years. As an artist, she works with handset letterpress and other print/paper/book-related processes to make a wide spectrum of work from contemporary artist books to fine press printing. Her…
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Hazel Lam
Hazel is a senior book designer at HarperCollins ANZ, where she entered the publishing industry in 2013. Her experience spreads across fiction, non-fiction, illustrated books, children’s illustrated books and YA. In her previous life she has worked in motion graphics,…
