ABDA Blog
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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… Read more
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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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Sandy Cull
Sandy has been designing books for more than 20 years. In 2004 and 2005, she won the Best Designed Book of the Year at the Book Design Awards. In 2011 she was the 7th person to be inducted into the…
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Sue Dani
Sue is an award-winning educational book designer with over 15 years experience in educational publishing. Her design career began when an opportunity arose in a niche publishing house working with the challenges of magazine design and layout. This was the…
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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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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…
