Australian Book Design Awards 2021 longlists announced

The longlists for the Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced.

Longlisted titles in some of the categories are:

Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover

• All Our Shimmering Skies (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate) designed by Darren Holt
• Greenwood (Michael Christie, Scribe) designed by Laura Thomas
• High Latitude for Dying (Hugh Allan, Shawline) designed by Melinda Childs
• I Give My Marriage a Year (Holly Wainwright, Macmillan) designed by Christa Moffitt, Christabella Designs
• Kokomo (Victoria Hannan, Hachette) designed by Alissa Dinallo
• Sorrow and Bliss (Meg Mason, Fourth Estate) designed by Amy Daoud
• The Fogging (Like Horton, Scribe) designed by Laura Thomas
• The Morbids (Ewa Ramsey, A&U) designed by Laura Thomas
• Torched (Kimberley Starr, Pantera) designed by Debra Billson
• The Night Letters (Denise Leith, Ventura) designed by Emily O’Neill

Best Designed Literary Fiction Cover

• Body of Water (Beverley Farmer, Giramondo) designed by Jenny Grigg
• A Couple of Things Before the End (Sean O’Beirne, Black Inc.) designed by Peter Long
• After Australia (ed by Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Affirm) designed by Josh Durham, Design by Committee
• Collisions (ed by Leah Jing McIntosh, Cher Tan, Adalya Nash Hussein & Hassan Abul, Pantera) designed by Annie Luo
• Honeybee (Craig Silvey, A&U) designed by Lisa White
• Mammoth (Chris Flynn, UQP) designed by Sonny Day & Biddy Maroney, WBYK
• Stone Sky Gold Mountain (Mirandi Riwoe, UQP) designed by Sandy Cull
• The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (Richard Flanagan, Knopf Australia) designed by Adam Laszczuk
• The Mother Fault (Kate Mildenhall, S&S) designed by Sandy Cull
• The Octopus and I (Erin Hortle, A&U) designed by Alissa Dinallo

Best Designed Autobiography/Biography/Memoir Nonfiction Cover

• Beautiful Unique Faces (Anita East, KMD Books) designed by Nada Backovic
• Blueberries (Ellena Savage, Text) designed by Jessica Horrocks
• Boy on Fire (Mark Mordue, Fourht Estate) designed by Hazel Lam
• Fourteen (Shannon Molloy, S&S) designed by Lisa White
• Having and Being Had (Eula Biss, Text) designed by W H Chong
• Hysteria (Katerina Bryant, NewSouth) designed by Alissa Dinallo
• Plastic Free (Rebecca Prince-Ruiz & Joanna Atherfold Finn, NewSouth) designed by Josh Durham, Design by Committee
• The Naked Farmer (Ben Brooksby, Macmillan) designed by Laura Thomas
• The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory (Corey White, Penguin) designed by Adam Laszczuk
• The Rare Metals of War (Guillaume Pitron, Scribe) designed by James Jones
• Truth is Trouble (Malcolm Knox, S&S) designed by Daniel New

Best Designed Cookbook

• Beatrix Bakes (Natalie Paull, Hardie Grant) designed by Allison Colpoys & Kasia Gadecki
• Bell Primary Family Cookbook (Bell Primary School) designed by Stuart Geddes & Žiga Testen
• Comida Mexicana (Rosa Cienfuegos, Smith Street Books) designed by Evi O, Evi O Studio
• In Praise of Veg (Alice Zaslavsky, Murdoch Books) designed by Trisha Garner & Jacqui Porter, Northwood Green
• The Hot Chicken Project (Aaron Turner, Hardie Grant) designed by Vaughan Mossop, NBHD Creative
• To Asia With Love (Hetty McKinnon, Plum) designed by Daniel New
• Vegan Junk Food (Zacchary Bird, Smith Street Books) designed by Vaughan Mossop
• Vegan With Bite (Shannon Martinez, Hardie Grant) designed by Vaughan Mossop, NBHD Creative

Best Designed Children’s Illustrated Book

• A Boy and a Ball (Phil Cummings, illus by Phil Lesnie, Scholastic) designed by Sarah Mitchell
• Happy Hippo (Charles Santoso, Scholastic) designed by Hannah Janzen
• Heart and Soul (Kadir Nelson, Scholastic) designed by Sarah Mitchell
• Hello Jimmy! (Anna Walker, Puffin) designed by Klarissa Pfisterer & Anna Walker
• Koalas Like To … (Shae Millward, illus by Brent Wilson, State Library of Queensland) designed by Brent Wilson & Johanna Hunt
• Ribbit Rabbit Robot (Victoria Mackinlay, illus by Sofya Karmazina) designed by Sofya Karmazina
• Scary Bird (Michel Streich, Scholastic) designed byMichel Streich & Nicolette Treanor
• The Astronaut’s Cat (Tohby Riddle, A&U) designed by Tohby Riddle
• The Giant and the Sea (Trent Jamieson, illus by Rovina Cai, Lothian) designed by Hannah Janzen
• The Incredible Runaway Snot (Josh Pyke, illus by Heath McKenzie, Scholastic) designed by Hannah Janzen
• The Little Queenslanders’ Alphabet Book (Sally Scudamore, illus by Sophie Beer, State Library of Queensland) designed by Sophie Beer & Joanna Hunt
• This Small Blue Dot (Zeno Sworder, Thames & Hudson) designed by Zeno Sworder
• We Love You, Magoo (Briony Stewart, Puffin) designed by Marina Messiha

Best Designed Children’s Fiction Book

• A Clue for Clara (Lian Tanner, A&U) designed by Hannah Janzen
• Across the Risen Sea (Bren MacDibble, A&U) designed by Joanna Hunt
• Bindi (Kirlie Saunders, illus by Dub Leffler, Magabala) designed by Joanna Hunt
• Coco: Big City Kitty (Laura Buntin, illus by Nicky Johnson, Omnibus) designed by Nicolette Treanor & Nicole Stofberg
• Crack Up (Jules Faber, Pan) designed by Billy Blue Creative
• Sunflower (Ingrid Laguna, Text) designed by Imogen Stubbs
• The January Stars (Kate Constable, A&U) designed by Debra Billson
• The Odds (Matt Stanton, ABC Kids) designed by Matt Stanton
• The Year the Maps Changed (Danielle Binks, Lothian) Astred Hicks, Design Cherry & Bookhouse Sydney
• Unboring Exploring (100 Story Building) designed by Regine Abos
• We Are Wolves (Katrina Nannestad, ABC Books) designed by Hazel Lam

Best Designed Young Adult Cover

• Loner (Georgina Young, Text) designed by Imogen Stubbs
• Stars Like Us (Frances Chapman, Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing) designed by Jess Cruickshank
• The End of the World is Bigger Than Love (Davina Bell, Text) designed by Imogen Stubbs
• The F Team (Rawah Arja, Giramondo) designed by Ben Juers
• The Long Distance Playlist (Tara Eglington, HarperCollins) designed by Hazel Lam
• This One is Ours (Kate O’Donnell, UQP) designed by Astred Hicks, Design Cherry
• When Rain Turns to Snow (Jane Godwin, Lothian) designed by Allison Colpoys
• Where We Begin (Christie Nieman, Pan) designed by Astred Hicks, Design Cherry

Emerging Designer of the Year

• George Saad
• Louisa Maggio
• Mika Tabata
• Sarah Mitchell.

Longlists were announced in 17 categories, including Best Designed Series (including Classics), Best Designed Fully-Illustrated Book Over $50/Under $50, Best Designed Children’s Nonfiction Illustrated Book, and in two Best Student Design categories.

To learn more about the awards, and to see the longlists for all categories, visit the ABDA website.

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