The winners of the 2019 Academy of British Cover Design (ABCD) Awards were announced earlier this month and, as in previous years, the winners are an eclectic mix of styles. It is always interesting to see the covers that the designers themselves vote for. Only a couple of the winning designs have been featured here before.
Young Adult
Run, Riot by Nikesh Shukla; design by Michelle Brackenborough (Hodder Children’s Books / June 2018)
Sci-fi/Fantasy
Folk by Zoe Gilbert; design by David Mann (Bloomsbury / July 2018)
Non-fiction
Money by Laura Whateley; design by Jack Smyth (Fourth Estate / October 2018)
Series Design
Miriam Toews; design Jonathan Pelham (Faber & Faber / September 2018)
Classics/Reissue
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier; design by Hannah Wood; embroidery by Hand & Lock (Virago / February 2018)
Children’s 0-5
Helping Hen by Claudia Ripol and Yeonju Yang; design and illustration by Claudia Ripol and Yeonju Yang (Owl and Dog Books / November 2018)
Children’s 6-12
The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Rauf; design by Thy Bui; illustration by Pippa Curnick (Orion Children’s Books / July 2018)
Literary Fiction
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata; design by Luke Bird (Portobello Books / July 2018)
Crime/Thriller
That Old Black Magic by Cathi Unsworth; design by Leo Nickolls (Serpents Tail / March 2018)
Mass Market
When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri; design by Sinem Erkas (Piaktus Books / June 2018)
You can find my previous posts on the ABCD Award winners here: 2018; 2017; 2016; 2015 and 2014.
And while we’re on the subject of awards, the Australian Book Design Association have announced the shortlist for this year’s awards.
Hey, can you add links on your page to share your articles on social media? This would be a great article to post on my twitter account, but I’m on my phone, not my computer, so it’s not as easy to save an image, copy the url, write a headline & post. I hate to keep passing over your articles. Thank you!!
Hi Anne. There are share buttons at the bottom of every post. I also post the links on Twitter and Facebook so you can find them there. :-)
Thanks, Dan! Wow, that is so weird — I clearly see them now, but when I was looking the other day, they weren’t appearing on my phone. Sorry! But thanks so much for the kind reply! I’ve tweeted this out now!
:-)