Book Designers at the Melbourne Writers Festival Schools’ Program

  ABDA Committee Member Mark Campbell will be joined by Stephanie Spartels, designer of the award-winning Choose Your Own Ever After series, at Behind Book Covers – a session for secondary school students at the 2016 Melbourne Writers Festival. Mark and Stephanie will be discussing how they judge a good book cover and how covers are made. The session […]

First Impressions

Each year, first-year Visual Communication students from the University of Technology Sydney are briefed to design a series of B-format book covers. Students choose a set of books from one of three literary genres: popular science, postcolonial fiction or science fiction. The brief includes three books in each set (which change annually to avoid feedback-fatigue […]