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Best Australian Book Design, 2012

We don’t exactly judge a book by its cover here at the Wheeler Centre … but we do appreciate a good-looking book cover, nonetheless.

The Australian Publishers' Association celebrates the best in Australian cover design once a year, with the APA Design Awards. This year’s winners were announced last week; here’s some of them.

Best Designed Book of the Year

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Love Lace: Powerhouse Museum International Lace Award, Powerhouse Publishing, designed by Toko.

Best Designed Cover of the Year

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The Art of Pasta, Lucio Galletto & David Dale, Penguin, designed by Daniel New, artist Luke Sciberras.

Young Designer of the Year

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Hannah Robinson for And Red Galoshes, pictured, Glenda Millard & Jonathan Bentley, Hardie Grant; The Elegant Art of Falling Apart, Jessica Jones, Hachette; Wide Open Road, Tony Davis, ABC Books; and Chasing Odysseus, S.D. Gentill, Pantera Press.

Best Designed Children’s Cover of the Year

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August, Bernard Beckett, Text, designed by W.H. Chong and Susan Miller.

Best Designed Fiction Book

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Love in the Years of Lunacy, Mandy Sayer, A&U, designed by Emily O'Neill.

Best Designed Non-Fiction Book

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Hiroshima Nagasaki, Paul Ham, HarperCollins, designed by Matt Stanton and HarperCollins Design Studio.

Best Designed Literary Fiction Book

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Foal’s Bread, Gillian Mears, A&U, designed by Sandy Cull, gogoGinko, and Yolande Gray.

Best Designed General Illustrated Book

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The Flight Attendant’s Shoe, Prudence Black, NewSouth, designed by Di Quick.

Best Designed Children’s Fiction Book

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Alaska, Sue Saliba, Penguin, designed by Allison Colpoys.

Best Designed Children’s Picture Book

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Ben & Duck, Sara Acton, Scholastic, designed by Nicole Stofberg.

Best Designed Children’s Series

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Star League 1: Lights, Camera, Action Hero!, H.J. Harper, Random House, designed by Nahum Ziersch and Astred Hicks, Design Cherry.

The full list of winners is available at Bookseller and Publisher online.

W._H._Chong_PIC_Size4 In the first of a new event series on the art of book design, multi-award-winning cover designer W.H. Chong will present an illustrated talk on how he turned much-loved Australian classics into art for Text Publishing’s Australian Classics series.

Beautiful Books: How To Design an Australian Classic with W.H. Chong will be held at the Wheeler Centre on Thursday 31 May at 6.15pm. Free, but please book.



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22 May 2012

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Hey, Wheeler Centre / Bookseller - how about a credit for the artist as well, since he does contribute to the Best Designed Cover of the Year - yay! Luke Sciberras :)

Penny Wheeler
22 May at 09:36AM

Added, Penny. Thanks for the extra information. It wasn't a deliberate omission - we've published the full credits available, which don't include the artists. But we were happy to update and add this in.

The Wheeler Centre
22 May at 10:39AM

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