The winners of this year’s Australian Publishers Association Book Design Awards were announced in a special event in Sydney last night. The winning books were:
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| Best designed cover | Best designed book | Best designed cookbook |
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| Best designed nonfiction book | Best designed fiction book | Best designed literary fiction book |
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| Best designed reference/scholarly book | Best designed specialist illustrated book | Best designed general illustrated book |
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| Best designed YA book | Best designed children’s fiction book | Best designed children’s nonfiction book |
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| Best designed children’s picture book | Best designed children’s cover | Best designed children’s series |
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| Best designed primary education book | Best designed secondary education book | Best designed tertiary & further education book |
Also announced on the night was the Young Designer of the Year award, which went this year to Swerve designer Adam Laszczuk for a body of work that also included the following titles:
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What do you think? You can check out the shortlisted books on the Australian Publishers Association site here.
Congrats to the designers – and particularly to The Valley of Grace. It’s one of the most beautiful books I’ve held for a long time. Ransom is pretty nice too – LOL.