Freelance Designer, Design Cherry
Sydney NSW
Astred Hicks, Design Cherry is a freelance book designer and illustrator whose distinctive work for a number of Australian and International publishing houses covers fiction, non-fiction and educational, with a emphasis on young adult fiction and children’s non-fiction.
Astred has won a number of book design awards during her 15-year career in publishing. Her illustration is work nominated for a 2020 CBCA Book of the Year award.
She is a published author and was Vice President of ABDA in 2020
Member since 2014
Awards
- 2021 Finalist, Best Designed Children's Fiction Book
- 2021 Finalist, Best Designed Children’s/Young Adult Series
- 2021 Longlisted, Best Designed Young Adult Cover
- 2021 Longlisted, Best Designed Young Adult Cover
- 2020 Winner, Best Designed Children's Non-Fiction Illustrated Book
- 2020 Shortlisted, Best Designed Children's Non-Fiction Illustrated Book
- 2020 Highly Commended, Best Designed Young Adult Cover
- 2020 Highly Commended, Best Designed Children’s/Young Adult Series
- 2020 Shortlisted, Best Designed Children’s/Young Adult Series
- 2019 Shortlisted, Best Designed Non-Fiction Cover
- 2019 Shortlisted, Best Designed Fully-Illustrated Book under $50
- 2018 Shortlisted, Best Designed Educational Tertiary Book
- 2018 Winner, Best Designed Young Adult Cover
- 2017 Shortlisted, Best Designed Young Adult Cover
- 2016 Winner, Best Designed Educational Primary/Secondary Book
2007 Joint Winner, Best Designed Tertiary & Further Education Book, APA
Expertise
- Art Direction
- Author
- Book Design
- Children’s Books
- Children’s Illustrated Books
- Creative Lettering
- Education Design
- Fiction
- Hand-drawn Typography
- Illustrated Books
- Illustration
- Teaching
- Typesetting
- Typography
- Young Adult Design