APA Book Design Awards (1951-)
or ABDA ; or Australian Book Design Awards
Subcategory of Australian Publishers Association Awards
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History

The ABDA highlights the role and importance of book designers in the promotion of Australian books, and provide a home for designers that is expansive, relevant, active and inclusive.

Not all categories are indexed comprehensively: non-fiction books are indexed according to AustLit's scope.

Subcategories

Best Designed Children's/Young Adult Cover
Deb Brash Emerging Designer of the Year
Best Designed Small-run Book Previously: Best Designed Independent Book
Best Designed Fully Illustrated Book Under $75 Previously: Best Designed Fully Illustrated Book Under $50
Designers' Choice Children's / Young Adult Book of the Year
Best Designed Educational Primary / Secondary Book
Best Designed Children's and Young Adult Series
Best Designed Children's Non-Fiction Illustrated Book
Best Designed Fully Illustrated Book Over $75 Previously: Best Designed Fully Illustrated Book Over $50
Best Designed Children's Illustrated Book
Best Designed Autobiography / Biography / Memoir
Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover
Designers’ Choice Cover of the Year
Designers’ Choice Book of the Year
Best Designed Young Adult Book
Best Designed Series
Best Designed Non Fiction Book
Best Designed Literary Fiction / Poetry Cover
Best Designed Children’s Fiction Book

Latest Winners / Recipients (also see subcategories)v1500

Year: 2013

winner (Young Designer of the Year) Evi Oetomo
winner (The Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Design Hall of Fame Award) W. H. Chong
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Works About this Award

Female Faces Cover Designers in Glory Susan Wyndham , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25 May 2015; (p. 11)
Designers Get Creative as Budgets Shrink in Tough Market Susan Wyndham , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25-26 May 2013; (p. 6) The Canberra Times , 25 May 2013; (p. 6)
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