ABDA announces 2023 award winners, new paid internship
The winners of the 2023 Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. ABDA has also announced the establishment of the ‘Baseline’ Book Design Internship.
The winners of this year’s awards in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in April, are:
ABDA book of the Year
- Queer: Stories from the NGV collection (ed by Ted Gott et al, NGV), designed by Dirk Hiscock and Karina Soraya
ABDA cover of the Year
- My Strange Shrinking Parents (Zeno Sworder, Thames & Hudson), designed by Zeno Sworder
Designers’ choice award
- Gunyah Goondie + Wurley: The Aboriginal architecture of Australia (Paul Memmott, Thames & Hudson), designed by Pfisterer + Freeman
Emerging designer of the year
- Jenna Lee for Dropbear (Evelyn Araluen, UQP), Galang (Brook Garru Andrew et al, Powerhouse Publishing), Unlimited Futures (ed by Rafeif Ismail & Ellen van Neerven, Fremantle Press), Whisper Songs (Tony Birch, UQP)
Best designed commercial fiction cover
- Love and Other Puzzles (Kimberley Allsop, HarperCollins), designed by Mark Campbell
Best designed literary fiction/poetry cover
- Son of Sin (Omar Sakr, Affirm), designed by Amy Daoud
Best designed nonfiction cover
- Childhood (Shannon Burns, Text), designed by W H Chong
Best designed nonfiction book
- Gunyah Goondie + Wurley: The Aboriginal architecture of Australia (Paul Memmott, Thames & Hudson), designed by Pfisterer + Freeman
Best designed series cover
- ’10 Ways’ series including Healthy Body, Keto Kitchen and Protein Power (Herron Books), designed by Andy Warren
Best fully illustrated book under $50
- Our Members Be Unlimited (Sam Wallman, Scribe), designed by Sam Wallman
Best fully illustrated book over $50
- Queer: Stories from the NGV collection (ed by Ted Gott et al, NGV), designed by Dirk Hiscock and Karina Soraya
Best designed cookbook
- Chinese-ish: Home cooking, not quite authentic, 100% delicious (Rosheen Kaul & Joanna Hu, Murdoch), designed by Sarah Odgers
Best designed children’s picture book
- My Strange Shrinking Parents (Zeno Sworder, Thames & Hudson), designed by Zeno Sworder
Best designed children’s nonfiction book
- Off to the Market (Alice Oehr, Scribe), designed by Anna McGregor and Miriam Rosenbloom
Best designed children’s fiction cover
- No Words (Maryam Master, Pan), designed by Astred Hicks, Design Cherry
Best designed children’s/YA series
- ‘Bunny Family’ series, including Bedtime is Boring, My Tooth is Looth and Stupid Carrots (Daron Parton, Scholastic), cover design by Sofya Karmazina
Best designed YA cover
- Sugar (Carly Nugent, Text), cover design by Imogen Stubbs
Best designed independent book
- Heide Love Poems to Life (David Thomas, Heide Museum of Modern Art), designed by Stuart Geddes and Michael Gibb
Best designed student cover
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Richard Rhodes, University of SA), cover design by Annika Turon-Semmens
Best designed student book
- Food Face: Almost a cookbook (RMIT), designed by Sophia Matelli
Best designed student series
- ‘Gentle and Fierce’ series including The Butterfly Effect, Mink Coat and Rabbit Island (Vanessa Berry, RMIT), designed by Ming Hui Lee
In their 71st year, the awards celebrate the ‘best and brightest, most original and beautiful designs of the past year’. The winners were announced at an awards ceremony on Friday, 26 May at Rose of Australia in Sydney.
ABDA ‘Baseline’ Book Design Internship
ABDA has announced the establishment of the ‘Baseline’ Book Design Internship. Each year ABDA will partner with a different publisher or design studio to provide an emerging designer with four weeks’ of ‘in-house’ experience. The inaugural paid internship will be a partnership with HarperCollins.
For more information, see the ABDA website.
Pictured: Guests inspect shortlisted books at the 2023 Australian Book Design Awards
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