17 Apr 2019

The Australian Book Design Awards celebrate the bravest and brightest, the most original and beautiful books published in Australia each year.

Here are some of the 2019 shortlistees for the different award categories

Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover

Best Designed Literary Fiction Cover

Best Designed Autobiography/Biography/Memoir/Non-Fiction Cover

Best Designed Children’s Illustrated Book

All the Ways to Be Smart, design by Allison Colpoys

Cicada, design by Shaun Tan

Rhyme Cordial, design by Miriam Rosenbloom & Antonia Pesenti

You can view the shortlisted books across all the categories here.

The winners of the 2019 Australian Book Design Awards will be announced at the Awards Party on Friday 31 May at the State Library of New South Wales in Sydney.

Find out more here.