ABDA Blog
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Tess McCabe
Graphic designer Tess McCabe founded Creative Minds Publishing, which aims to produce high-quality books and resources for creative professionals and their businesses. In addition to designing books for a range of publishing houses, Tess consults with small businesses and individuals… Read more
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Luke Harris
Luke Harris grew up in outback NSW in a small mining town, and studied at Monash University. He has run his own print design practice for over 20 years and largely specialises in book design.
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Sharnai James-McGovern
Passionate about books, Sharnai first got started as a book designer by chance. With a graphic design background from the Queensland University of Technology Sharnai then took on a Masters of Arts (Writing, Editing, Publishing) at the University of Queensland.
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Romy Moshinsky
Real Film and Publishing was established in 2012 by Romy Moshinsky, a writer and editor committed to producing beautifully designed non-fiction books. She works in collaboration with writer Georgie Raik-Allen and a team of talented book designers and photographers. Real…
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Ozan Tortop
Ozan studied graphic design and first worked in advertising. He then discovered children’s book design and happily left the ad world to become the art director of a publishing house. Ozan then accidentally wrote a young adult science fiction novel,…
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Graham Rendoth
Graham Rendoth (BA Design, SCA) established Reno Design in 1989, offering strategic brand and creative book services to major, boutique and independent publishers. Over 1000 titles have been produced. Specialist colleagues such as editors, distributors and photographers are used when…
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Bec Yule
Bec has been designing books for over 15 years, including working as an in-house book designer for Pearson Education Australia. Freelance since 2002, she has designed books for Macmillan Education Australia, Mallon Publishing, Insight Publications, CUP and other commercial publishing…
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Allison Colpoys
Allison Colpoys is an award-winning designer and illustrator, and the Art Director at Scribe Publications. Her picture books include The Underwater Fancy-dress Parade, Under the Love Umbrella, If All the World Were… and All the Ways To Be Smart. As…
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Alissa Dinallo
Alissa is a Sydney-based book designer who has worked in-house at Allen & Unwin and Penguin Random House. When not designing for commercial publishing houses, Alissa also works closely with writers to create artist’s books and typographic works. She is…
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Lisa White
Lisa White is an award winning freelance designer with many years experience in the publishing industry. She previously worked inhouse for Scholastic, spent a decade with Allen & Unwin and most recently was Head of Design for HarperCollins Australia and…
