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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