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ABDA awards 2022 winners announced

The winners of the 70th Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced.

The winners in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in April, are:

Best designed commercial fiction cover

  • Catch Us the Foxes (Nicola West, S&S) designed by Sandy Cull

Best designed literary fiction cover

  • In Moonland (Miles Allinson, Scribe) designed by Allison Colpoys

Best designed series (including classics)

  • Giramondo Poetry series, designed by Jenny Grigg

Best designed nonfiction cover (joint winners)

  • He. (Murray Bail, Text) designed by W H Chong
  • Sex, Lies and Question Time (Kate Ellis, Hardie Grant) designed by Ella Egidy

Best designed cookbook

  • How Wild Things Are (Analiese Gregory, Hardie Grant) designed by Daniel New

Best designed children’s illustrated book

  • You Two, You Two (Brooke Hill, illus by Elin Matilda, Wonderthink) designed by Belinda Hubball

Best designed children’s nonfiction illustrated book

  • With a Little Kelp from Our Friends (Matthew Bate, illus by Liz Rowland, Thames & Hudson) designed by Hope Lumsden-Barry

Best designed children’s fiction book

  • Eliza Vanda’s Button Box (Emily Rodda, Angus & Robertson) designed by Hazel Lam & Jessica Cruickshank

Best designed young adult cover

  • Off the Map (Scot Gardner, A&U) designed by Debra Billson

Best designed childrens/YA series

  • Kat MacLeod Early Learner series (Thames & Hudson) designed by Kat MacLeod

Best designed educational primary-secondary book

  • Adam Spencer’s Maths 101 (Adam Spencer, Hardie Grant) designed by Regine Abos

Best designed educational tertiary book

  • Yatdjuligin (ed by Odette Best & Bronwyn Fredericks, CUP) designed by Leigh Ashforth

Best designed independent book (joint winners)

  • disorganising WORKBOOK (West Space, Liquid Architecture, Bus Projects) designed by Alexandra Margetic & Zenobia Ahmed
  • Theory of Colours (Bella Li, Vagabond) designed by Bella Li

Best designed fully illustrated book under $50

  • Dale Harding: Through a lens of visitation (Monash University Museum of Art and Power Publications) designed by Stuart Geddes & Ziga Testen

Best designed fully illustrated books over $50

  • Robert Owen: A book of encounters (Perimeter Editions) designed by Stuart Geddes, Paul Mylecharane & Kim Mumm-Hansen

Best designed student cover

  • Writing Art (Bowen Street Press Review), designed by Girivarshan Balasubramanian, RMIT University

Best designed student book

  • Index of Breath, designed by Ruby Neagle, University of Technology Sydney

Best designed student series

  • A Tale of Magic/Witchcraft/Sorcery, designed by Jacob Pham, Monash University

Emerging Designer of the Year

Designers’ choice cover of the year

  • Italian Street Food (Paola Bacchia, Smith Street) designed by George Saad

Designers’ choice children’s/young adult cover of the year

  • Day Break (Amy McQuire, illus by Matt Chun, Bright Light) designed by Pooja Desai

Designers’ choice book of the year

  • Italian Street Food (Paola Bacchia, Smith Street) designed by George Saad

Designers’ choice children’s/young adult book of the year

  • Day Break (Amy McQuire, illus by Matt Chun, Bright Light) designed by Pooja Desai.

The winners were announced at an event in Melbourne on Friday, 3 June. For more information, see the ABDA website.

 

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