The 60th annual APA Book Design Awards
The shortlists for this year’s Australian Publishers Association (APA) Book Design Awards have been revealed… and we are BURSTING with pride to see the titles below make the cut! Thank you, designers, for making our books so eyecatching and ‘pick-uppable’.
In… Best Designed Children’s Fiction:
Crow Country by Kate Constable
cover and internals by Josh Durham
In… Best Designed Children’s Picture Book:
cover and internals by Jon Foye
Grumpy Little King by Michel Streich
cover and internals by Michel Streich
In… Best Designed Young Adult Book:
The Wilful Eye: Tales from the Tower Vol. One, edited by
Cover and internals by Zoe Sadokierski
(find out more about Zoe’s design process for the Tales from the Tower books)
The Shattering by Karen Healey
cover and internals by Bruno Herfst
In… Best Designed Fiction Book:
Love in the Years of Lunacy by Mandy Sayer
cover and internals by Emily O’Neill (fun fact: Emily was Young Designer of the Year in 2011!)
Last Summer by Kylie Ladd
cover and internals by Natalie Winter
In… Best Designed Literary Fiction Book:
The Life by Malcolm Knox
cover by Emily O’Neill, internals by Phil Campbell
Foal’s Bread by Gillian Mears
cover by Sandy Cull, internals by Yolande Gray and Sandy Cull
And finally, in… Best Designed Non-Fiction Book:
Good Living Street by Tim Bonyhady
cover and internals by Emily O’Neill
Category winnners, The Best Designed Book of the Year and The Young Designer of the Year will be announced at the awards ceremony at the Powerhouse Museum on Thursday 17th May.
