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Australian Book Design Awards 2016 winners announced

Monday, 16 May 2016   Books+Publishing
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The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) announced the winners of the 2016 Book Design Awards at an event in Melbourne on 13 May.

The winning titles in each category are:

Best Designed Commercial Fiction Book

  • King Rich (Joe Bennett, HarperCollins), cover by Darren Holt, internal design by HarperCollins Design Studio

Best Designed Literary Fiction Book

  • Hot Little Hands (Abigail Ulman, Hamish Hamilton), designed by Laura Thomas

Best Designed Nonfiction Book

  • Lion Attack! (Oliver Mol, Scribe), designed by Allison Colpoys

Best Designed Series (including Classics)

  • The ‘Mark Dapin’ series (Viking), cover and illustration by Josh Durham, internal design by Samantha Jayaweera
  • The ‘Precincts’ series (Dale Campisi, Hardie Grant), designed by Michelle Mackintosh

Best Designed Fully-illustrated Book Under RRP $50

  • T2: The Book (Maryanne Shearer, Lantern), designed by Evi O, illustration by Grace Mathis and Evi O, photography by Magenta Burgin and various

Best Designed Fully-illustrated Book Over RRP $50

  • Mongrel Rapture (ARM Architecture et al, Uro), designed by Stuart Geddes and ARM Architecture

Best Designed Cookbook

  • Huxtaburger (Daniel Wilson, Hardie Grant), designed by Suzy Tuxen and Cassie Brock, illustration by Cassie Brock, photography by Chris Middleton

Best Designed Independent Book

  • Memory Makes Us (Kate Pullinger et al, IF Book Australia), designed by Alissa Dinallo, Zoe Sadokierski and Gemma Warriner

Best Designed Scholarly and Reference Book

  • Friday Saturday Sunday (Explore Australia, Hardie Grant), designed by Aidan Connelly

Best Designed Educational Primary / Secondary Book

  • The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East (Ian J Bickerton, Cengage), cover by Danielle Maccarone and Olga Lavecchia, internal design by Astred Hicks, illustration by Danielle Maccacrone

Best Designed Educational Tertiary Book

  • MKTG (Charles W Lamb et al, Cengage), cover by Ruth O’Connor, internal design by Olga Lavecchia

Best Designed Children’s Illustrated Book

  • The Underwater Fancy-Dress Parade (Davina Bell, illus by Allison Colpoys, Scribe), designed by Allison Colpoys

Best Designed Children’s Fiction Book

  • Ickypedia (Richard Higgins & Matt Kelly, Puffin), designed by Bruno Herfst, illustration by Richard Higgins and Matt Kelly

Best Designed Young Adult Book

  • Lifespan of Starlight (Thalia Kalkipsakis, Hardie Grant Egmont), cover and illustration by Josh Durham, internal design by Patrick Cannon

Best Designed Children’s / Young Adult Series

  • ‘The Bad Guys’ series (Aaron Blabey, Scholastic), cover by Nicole Stofberg, internal design by Nicole Stofberg and Aaron Blabey

Young Designer of the Year

  • Murray Batten, designer of: The New Nordic (Simon Bajada, Hardie Grant); Coco Chanel (Megan Hess, Hardie Grant); East (Leanne Kitchen & Antony Suvalko, Hardie Grant); and My Italian Kitchen (Laura Cassai, Hardie Grant).

To view images of the winning titles, click here.

ABDA also presented three ‘designers’ choice’ awards, which were chosen by ABDA members at the awards presentation. The winners are:

Designers’ Choice Book of the Year

  • Mongrel Rapture (ARM Architecture et al, Uro), designed by Stuart Geddes and ARM Architecture

Designers’ Choice Best Young Adult / Children’s Cover

  • The Underwater Fancy-Dress Parade (Davina Bell, illus by Allison Colpoys, Scribe), designed by Allison Colpoys

Designers’ Choice Best Cover of the Year.

  • Hot Little Hands (Abigail Ulman, Hamish Hamilton), designed by Laura Thomas.

At the awards party it was also announced PRH executive designer Tony Palmer has been inducted into the Australian Book Design Hall of Fame, which recognises ‘designers whose body of work and role in the book industry has made a significant contribution to book design in Australia’. Palmer joins current Hall of Fame members W H Chong, Sandy Cull, Deborah Brash, George Dale, Harry Williamson, Arthur Stokes, Alec Bolton and Patrick Coyle.

The judging panel comprised designers Stephen Banham, Debra Billson, Philip Campbell, Alissa Dinallo and Bruno Herfst; international judge Jessica Hische; Tracy O’Shaughnessy of RMIT; and Jeremy Wortsman of The Jacky Winter Group.

This is the third year that the awards have been run by ABDA, which took over management of the awards from the Australian Publishers Association.

 

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