Book Designer
Melbourne VIC
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 Australian Book Design Hall of Fame. Sandy was a founding ABDA committee member, has been a guest speaker at writers’ festivals and an occasional guest lecturer on book design at secondary and tertiary level. She’s still planning to blow the cobwebs from her Arab platen press and finaly print some small literary works in hot metal.
Member since 2014
Expertise
- Book Design
- Education Design
- Research
- Teaching
- Typesetting
Awards
- 2019 Shortlisted, Best Designed YA Cover
- 2017 Winner, Best Designed Series (including Classics)
- 2017 Winner, Best Designed Literary Fiction Book
- 2016 Shortlisted, Best Designed Commercial Fiction Book
- 2015 Shortlisted, Best Designed Literary Fiction Book
- 2015 Shortlisted, Best Designed Literary Fiction Book
- 2014 Shortlisted, Best Designed Commercial Fiction Book
- 2014 Shortlisted, Best Designed Non-fiction Book
- 2014 Winner, Best Designed Young Adult Book
- 2014 Shortlisted, Best Designed Young Adult Book