ABDA 2020 winners announced
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) has announced the winners of the 2020 Australian Book Design Awards.
Chosen from shortlists announced in April, the winners in each category are:
Best designed commercial fiction cover
- The Van Apfel Girls are Gone (Felicity McLean, Fourth Estate) designed by Mark Campbell
Best designed literary fiction cover
- The Death of Murat Idrissi (Tommy Wieringa, Scribe) designed by Daniel New
Best designed autobiography/biography/memoir nonfiction cover
- The Thinking Woman (Julienne van Loon, NewSouth) designed by Sandy Cull
Best designed general nonfiction book (including scholarly and reference)
- #MeToo: Stories from the Australian Movement (Ed by Natalie Kon-yu et al, Picador) designed by Debra Billson
Best designed series (including classics)
- ‘Pocket Precincts’ (Hardie Grant Travel) designed by Michelle Mackintosh
Best designed fully-illustrated book under RRP $50
- Darren Sylvester: Carve a future, devour everything, become something (National Gallery of Victoria) designed by Dirk Hiscock
Best designed fully-illustrated book over RRP $50
- Janet Laurence: After nature (Museum of Contemporary Art Australia) designed by Claire Orrell
Best designed cookbook
- Baltic (Simon Bajada, Hardie Grant) designed by Andy Warren
Best designed independent book
- An Unreliable Guidebook to Jewellery (Lisa Walker, ed by Kate Rhodes & Nella Themelios, RMIT Design Hub Gallery) designed by Ziga Testen & Kim Mumm Hansen
Best designed educational primary / secondary book
- Biology for Queensland (Lorraine Huxley, Margaret Walter & Robyn Flexman, OUP) designed by Nina Hervanto
Best designed children’s illustrated book
- Argh! There’s a Skeleton Inside You! (Idan Ben-Barak & Julian Frost, A&U) designed by Julian Frost
Best designed children’s nonfiction illustrated book
- The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ugly Animals (Sami Bayly, Lothian) designed by Daniel New & Astred Hicks, Design Cherry
Best designed children’s fiction book
- Running with the Horses (Alison Lester, Puffin) designed by Tony Palmer
Best designed young adult cover
- How to Make Friends With the Dark (Kathleen Glasgow, HarperCollins) designed by Allison Colpoys
Best designed children’s / YA series
- Lento and Fox: My Book (Not Yours) and Lento and Fox: My Pet (Not Yours) (Ben Sanders, Lothian) designed by Ben Sanders
Best student design award
- The Girls (Shillington Education) designed by Molly Keene
Emerging designer of the year
‘Designers’ choice’ Children’s/YA Cover of the Year
- How to Make Friends With the Dark (Kathleen Glasgow, HarperCollins) designed by Allison Colpoys
‘Designers’ choice’ Children’s/YA Book of the Year
- Argh! There’s a Skeleton Inside You! (Idan Ben-Barak & Julian Frost, A&U) designed by Julian Frost
‘Designers’ choice’ Cover of the Year (joint winners)
- Death of a Typographer (Nick Gadd, Arcadia) designed by Stephen Banham
- The Glad Shout (Alice Robinson, Affirm Press) designed by Jenny Grigg
‘Designers’ choice’ Book of the Year
- The Whole Fish Cookbook (Josh Niland, Hardie Grant Books) designed by Daniel New.
The tertiary education book award was not presented this year due to ‘exceptionally low entries’.
The awards were announced in an online ceremony on Thursday 20 August, having been postponed from 22 May due to Covid-19.
This is the sixth year that the awards have been run by ABDA, which took over the responsibility of running the awards from the Australian Publishers Association. For more information, visit the ABDA website.
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