2022 Australian Book Design Awards longlists announced

The long lists for the 2022 Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced.

Shortlisted titles in some of the categories are:

Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover

• Catch us foxes (Nicola West, S&S) designed by Sandy Cull
• Driving Stevie Fracasso (Barry Divola, HarperCollins) designed by Darren Holt
• In my defense, I have no defense (Sinead Stubbins, Affirm) designed by Josh Durham, Design by Committee
• love, in theory (Elodie Cheesman, Macmillan) designed by Christa Moffitt, Christabella Designs
• hundred days (Alice Pung, Black Inc.) designed by Sandy Cull
• Savages of Paris (Katherine Johnson, Ventura Press) designed by Josh Durham, Design by Committee
• Yarrandarrah prison seamstresses (Meredith Jaffé, HarperCollins) designed by Emily O’Neill
• The silence (Sara Foster, HarperCollins) designed by Darren Holt
• The other side of beauty (Kim Lock, HQ Fiction) designed by Christa Moffitt
• The Speech Writer (Martin McKenzie-Murray, Scribe) designed by Nathan Burton
• The young lady (Sally Hepworth, Macmillan) designed by Christa Moffitt, Christabella Designs
• Tussaud (Belinda Lyons-Lee, Transit Lounge) designed by Josh Durham, Design by Committee
• When things are alive they hum (Hannah Bent, Ultimo) designed by Alissa Dinallo

Best Designed Literary Fiction Cover

• A Room Called Earth (Madeleine Ryan, Scribe) designed by Allison Colpoys
• Axiomatic (Maria Tumarkin, Penguin) designed by Adam Laszczuk
• Devotion (Hannah Kent, Picador) designed by Sandy Cull
• Everything at once (Ultimo) designed by George Saad
• Friends and Dark Forms (Kavita Bedford, Text) designed by Imogen Stubbs
• How decent people behave (Maxine Beneba Clark, Hachette) designed by Allison Colpoys
• How we are translated (Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, Scribe) designed by Allison Colpoys
• In the Land of the Moon (Miles Allinson, Scribe) designed by Allison Colpoys
• O (Steven Carroll, Fourth Estate) designed by Jon Gray
• Travel Companions (Antoni Jach, Transit Lounge) designed by Josh Durham, Design by Committee
• Two women and a poisoning (Alfred Döblin, Text) designed by WH Chong

Best Designed Nonfiction Cover

• The books that made us (Carl Reinecke, HarperCollins) designed by Mietta Yans
• He. (Murray Bail, Text) designed by WH Chong
• Jacinda Ardern (Carl A Harte & Supriya Vani, Hardie Grant) designed by Mietta Yans
• muddy people (Sara El Sayed, Black Inc.) designed by Alissa Dinallo
• New and selected poems (JS Harry, Giramondo) designed by Jenny Grigg
• No document (Anwen Crawford, Giramondo) designed by Jenny Grigg
• Sex, Lies and Question Time (Kate Ellis, Hardie Grant) designed by Ella Egidy
• ten thousand replicas (Michelle Tom, Fourth Estate) designed by Sandy Cull
• The ghost in the garden (Jude Piesse, Scribe) designed by Laura Thomas
• The shape of sound (Fiona Murphy, Text) designed by WH Chong
• White Russians, Red Peril (Sheila Fitzpatrick, La Trobe University Press) designed by Akiko Chan

Best-designed cookbook

• 3D Snacks (Eli George, Smith Street) designed by George Saad
• Home made (Broadsheet, Plum) designed by The Company You Keep
• how wild things are (Analiase Gregory, Hardie Grant) designed by Daniel New
• Istria (Paola Bacchia, Smith Street) designed by Vanessa Masci
• Italian street food (Paola Bacchia, Smith Street) designed by George Saad
• Preserving the Italian way (Pietro Demaio, Plum) designed by Evi O Studio, Evi O, Nicole Ho & Kait Polkinghorne
• take a fish (Josh Niland, Hardie Grant) designed by Daniel New
• The vegan butcher (Zacchary Bird, Smith Street) designed by Evi O

The best illustrated children’s book

• A pair of pears and an orange (Anna McGregor, Scribble) designed by Anna McGregor
• Arno and his horse (Jane Godwin, illus de Felicita Sala, Scribble) designed by Miriam Rosenbloom
• Great love (Megan Jacobson, illus de Beck Feiner, Walker) designed by Amanda Tarlau
• Break of the day (Amy McQuire, artwork by Matt Chun, Bright Light) designed by Pooja Desai
• Happy Home Hoppy (Tull Suwannakit, Scholastic) designed by Hannah Janzen
• Hi world (Lisa Shanahan, Illustrated by Leila Rudge, ABC Kids) designed by Kristy Lund-White
• Raja Street (Myo Yim, Walker) designed by Amanda Tarlau
• large poppy (Heath McKenzie, Hardie Grant) designed by Hannah Janzen
• The boy and the elephant (Freya Blackwood, Angus & Robertson) designed by Hannah Janzen
• The boy who tried to shorten his name (Sandhya Parappukkaran, illustrations by Michelle Pereira, Hardie Grant) designed by Pooja Desai
• little explorers (Kat Macleod, T&H) designed by Kat Macleod
• Vernon the Penguin (Natashia Curtin, Omnibus) designed by Hannah Janzen
• Whale walk (Nick Bland, Little Hare) designed by Sarah Mitchell
• Who fed Zed? (Amelia McInerney, illustrated by Adam Nickel, A&U) designed by Kirby Armstrong
• You two, you two (Brooke Hill, illustrated by Elin Matilda, Wonderthink) designed by Belinda Hubball

Best Designed Children’s Fiction Book

• Balloon Girls (Darrell Pitt, Text) designed by Jessica Horrocks
• dragon skin (Karen Foxlee, A&U) designed by Hannah Janzen
• Eliza Vanda’s Button Box (Emily Rodda, Angus & Robertson) designed by Hazel Lam & Jessica Cruickshank
• Exit through the gift shop (Marym Master, illustrated by Astrid Hicks, Pan) designed by Astrid Hicks, Design Cherry
• Marcie Gill and the caravan park cat (Monica McInerney, Puffin) designed by Marina Messiha
• Paris takes over the world (Kyla May, Scholastic) designed by Hannah Janzen
• rainfed fish (Andrew Paterson, Text) designed by Imogen Stubbs
• Rime Hunger (Antonia Pesenti, Scribble) designed by Antonia Pesenti
• The promise (Richard Dove, illus by Kyoko Imazu, Little White Bird Press) designed by Hannah Janzen
• treasure in the lake (Jason Pamment, A&U) designed by Jason Pamment

Best designed young adult blanket

• 100 Remarkable Feats of Xander Maze (Clayton Zane Comber, Angus & Robertson) designed by Astrid Hicks, Design Cherry
• Dirt Circus League (Maree Kimberley, Text) designed by Jessica Horrocks
• Harmony (Richard Yaxley, Omnibus) designed by Elly Whiley
• off map (Scot Gardner, A&U) designed by Debra Billson
• Sabriel (Garth Nix, A&U) designed by Sandra Nobes
• The boy from the Mish (Gary Lonesborough, A&U) designed by Kirby Armstrong
• Tiger Girl (Rebecca Lim, A&U) designed by Romina Panetta Edwards
• Romeo awake (Kathryn Barker, A&U) designed by Amy Daoud

Emerging Designer of the Year

• George Saad
• Elly Whiley
• Mietta Yans.

In its 70th year, the awards celebrate the “best and brightest, most original and most beautiful designs of the past year”. Judges reviewed 497 books in 20 categories, including best-crafted series (including classics), illustrated non-fiction for children, fully illustrated books over $50/under $50, and three categories of student design.

Shortlists will be announced in early April and winners will be announced in June. For the complete long list in all categories, see the ABDA website.

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