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Australian Book Design Awards 2024 shortlists announced

Thursday, 28 March 2024   Books+Publishing
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The shortlists for the 2024 Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced.

The shortlisted titles in selected categories are:

Best designed commercial fiction cover

  • Funny Ethnics (Shirley Le, Affirm), designed by George Saad
  • Homecoming (Kate Morton, A&U), designed by Sandy Cull
  • Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate), designed by Darren Holt
  • Never Look Desperate (Rachel Matthews, Transit Lounge), designed by Design by Committee

 

Best designed literary fiction/poetry cover

  • Dress Rehearsals (Madison Godfrey, A&U), designed by Allison Colpoys
  • The Furphy Anthology 2023 (Hardie Grant), designed by Design by Committee
  • Praiseworthy (Alexis Wright, Giramondo), designed by Jenny Grigg
  • The Terrible Event (David Cohen, Transit Lounge), designed by Design by Committee

 

Best designed nonfiction cover

  • The New Rulebook (Chris Cheers, HarperCollins), designed by Mietta Yans
  • The State of Capitalism (The EReNSEP Writing Collective & Costas Lapavitsas, Verso), designed by Duncan Blachford
  • The Queen Is Dead (Stan Grant, HarperCollins), designed by Darren Holt
  • ‘Twas a Dark and Stormy Gurgle (John Marsden, self-published), designed by Design by Committee

 

Best designed series cover

  • The Crikey Read (Hardie Grant), designed by Design by Committee
  • First Nations Classics (UQP), designed by Jenna Lee
  • Giramondo Poetry Series (Giramondo), designed by Jenny Grigg
  • Planet Zodiac (OH Editions), designed by Evi O. of Evi O. Studio

Best designed fully illustrated book under $75

  • Earth & Fire (Kylie Johnson & Tiffany Johnson, T&H), designed by Ashlea O’Neill
  • Hoda Afshar: A curve is a broken line (ed by Isobel Parker Philip, Art Gallery of NSW), designed by Zoe James
  • Portraits (W H Chong, Text), designed by W H Chong
  • Sydney Brutalism (Heidi Dokulil, NewSouth), designed by Daniel New

Best designed fully illustrated book over $75

  • 1001 Remarkable Objects (Rhyan Clapham et al., Powerhouse), designed by Karen Hancock
  • NGV Triennial 2023 (NGV), designed by Dirk Hiscock
  • Paul Yore: WORD MADE FLESH (Art Ink/ACCA), designed by Lavinia Puccetti of Hayman Design
  • This Is Afghanistan (Andrew Quilty, MUP), designed by Vince Frost

Best designed cookbook

  • The Dinner Party: A chef’s guide to home entertaining (Martin Benn & Vicki Wild, Hardie Grant), designed by Evi O. of Evi O. Studio
  • Fish Butchery: Mastering the catch, cut and craft (Josh Niland, Hardie Grant), designed by Daniel New
  • Gohan: Everyday Japanese cooking (Emiko Davies, Smith Street), designed by Evi O. of Evi O. Studio
  • Rumi (Joseph Abboud, Murdoch Books), designed by George Saad

Best designed children’s picture book

  • The 90s! For Babies! (illus by Kim Drane, Smith Street), designed by Michelle Mackintosh
  • Clive Penguin (Huw Lewis Jones, illus by Ben Sanders, Little Tiger), designed by Ben Sanders
  • Pasta! (Felice Arena, illus by Beatrice Cerocchi, Affirm), designed by Sasha Beekman
  • Who’s Afraid of the Light (Anna McGregor, Scribble), designed by Anna McGregor

Best designed children’s nonfiction book

  • Artichoke to Zucchini: An alphabet of delicious things from around the world (Alice Oehr, Scribble), designed by Guy Ivison and Alice Oehr
  • Phonobet (Kathy Weeden, illus by Kim Drane, NLA), designed by Hannah Janzen
  • Sensational Sharks (Emma Flannery & Tim Flannery, HGCP), designed by Kristy Lund-White
  • Ultrawild (Steve Mushin, A&U), designed by Sandra Nobes and Steve Mushin

Best designed junior fiction book

  • Cat on the Run (Aaron Blabey, Scholastic), designed by Nicole Stofberg
  • CrossBones: The dog with two tails (Jack Henseleit & Chris Kennett, HGCP), designed by Hannah Janzen
  • Ember and the Island of Lost Creatures (Jason Pamment, A&U), designed by Jason Pamment

Best designed children’s/young adult series cover

  • Big World, Tiny World series (Jess Racklyeft, Affirm), designed by Hannah Janzen
  • Miimi Marraal, Mother Earth/My Little Barlaagany (Sunshine)/Giinagay Gaagal, Hello Ocean (Melissa Greenwood, ABC Books), designed by Anna Sassi & Melissa Greenwood
  • Roobee Roo: Hoppy jolly Christmas (Nico & Candy Robertson, Hachette), designed by Nico and Candy Robinson
  • We Who Are Forged in Fire/We Who Hunt the Hollow (Kate Murray, HGCP), designed by Jessica Cruickshank

Best designed children’s/young adult cover

  • Blind Spot (Robyn Dennison, Text), designed by Imogen Stubbs
  • Eta Draconis (Brendan Ritchie, UWAP), designed by Design by Committee
  • It’s the Sound of the Thing (Maxine Beneba Clarke, HGCP), designed by Pooja Desai

Best designed small-run book

  • Concerned Citizen (Tempo Haus), designed by Duncan Blachford
  • Every Car That I Have Driven (Bobby Ly, Picolitre), designed by Hope Lumsden-Barry
  • Like an Angel Who Has Lost Their Way (Ilias Kounelas, Éditions Maudites), designed by Duncan Blachford

Deb Brash emerging designer of the year

  • Sasha Beekman
  • Susan Le
  • Kait Polkinghorne.

In their 72nd year, the awards celebrate the ‘best and brightest, most original and beautiful designs of the past year’.

The shortlists were chosen from longlists announced earlier this month. The winners of the Australian Book Design Awards, including the Book of the Year and Cover of the Year and the Designers’ Choice Award, will be announced at the awards ceremony on 24 May at Craft & Co in Melbourne.

The shortlists in all categories can be viewed via the ABDA website.

 

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