The winners of the annual APA Book Design Awards were announced last week at the Sydney Writers' Festival. We've put together the covers of all of the winning books here for your visual enjoyment. And a good-looking bunch they are too. Congratulations to all the winners.
The Best Designed Book of the Year
Etcetera by (Cover and internal design by Reuben
Crossman)
The Best Designed Cover of the Year
Ransom by David Malouf (Cover design by Christa Moffit,
Christabella Designs)
The Best Designed Children's Cover of the Year
The Terrible Plop by Ursula Dubosarsky (Cover design by
Megan Pigott)
The Best Designed Children’s Fiction Book
Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children by Jen Storer (Cover and internal design by Tony Palmer)
The Best Designed Children’s Non-fiction Book
Riding the Black Cockatoo by John Danalis (Cover design by John & Stella Danalis; internal design by Stella Danalis)
The Best Designed Children’s Picture Book
Wanted - The Perfect Pet by Fiona Roberton (Cover and
internal design by Kirby Armstrong)
The Best Designed Children’s Series
Friends
for Keeps by Anna Walker and Emma Quay (Cover and internal
design by Anna Walker)
The Best Designed Young Adult Book
Swerve by Phillip Gwynne (Cover and internal design by
Adam Laszczuk)
The Best Designed Fiction Book
A True History of the Hula Hoop by Judith Lanigan (Cover
design by Stuart McLachlan & Melanie Feddersen, i2i Design;
Internal design by Melanie Feddersen, i2i Design)
The Best Designed Cookbook
The Songs of Sapa by Luke Nguyen (Cover and internal
design by Sarah Odgers)
The Best Designed Specialist Illustrated Book
Crooks Like Us by Peter Doyle (Cover and internal
design by Louise Cornwall)
The Best Designed General Illustrated Book
Etcetera by (Cover and internal design by Reuben
Crossman)
The Best Designed Literary Fiction Book
Valley of Grace by Marion Halligan (Cover and internal
design by Sandy Cull, gogoGingko)
The Best Designed Non-fiction Book
Leave to Remain: A Memoir by Abbas El-Zein (Cover and
internal design by Jenny Grigg)
The Best Designed Reference & Scholarly Book
Grand Obsessions by Alasdair McGregor (Cover and internal
design by Allison Colpoys)
The Best Designed Primary Education Book
Oxford Atlas Project 2 (Cover design by Sue Dani;
internal design by Regine Abos)
The Best Designed Secondary Education Book
Myths and Legends 1 (Cover and internal design by
Regine Abos)
The Best Designed Tertiary and Further Education Book
Functional
Histology 2e (Cover and internal design by Modern Art
Production Group)
