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Academy of British Cover Design Awards 2015 winners revealed

2016-05-05

The third annual Academy of British Cover Design Awards (ABCD) have been revealed, with Waterstones Book of the Year 2015 winner Coralie Bickford Smith picking up her second award in four months for The Fox and the Star.

The awards, given in 10 categories, celebrate the best in UK-published book jacket design in 2015 and also saw creations for the covers of Louise O’Neill’s Asking For It and Chris Kraus’s I Love Dick win awards.

Children`s

Designed by Anne Louise Jones Illustrated by Jean Jullien

Designed by Ben Norland Illustrated by Viviane Schwarz

Designed by studiohelen

Illustrated by Dan Evans, Designed by Sophie Burdess

Illustrated by Jim Field, Art Directed by Jenny Stephenson

Designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith

Young adult

Designed by Kate Gaughran

Designed by Jet Purdie

Designed by Sinem Erkas

Designed by Rachel Vale

Designed by Paul Coomey

Designed by Leo Nickolls

Sci-fi

Designed by Jack Smyth

Designed by Ben Summers

Designed by David Mann

Designed by Sinem Erkas

Designed by Sinem Erkas

Designed by James Annal

Mass market

Designed by Jo Walker

Designed by Ami Smithson

Designed by Joanna Thomson Illustrated by Maricor/Maricar

Designed by Jo Walker

Designed by Mark Swan

Illustrated by Fumio Watanbe, Designed by Sarah Christie

Literary fiction

Designed by Jonathan Pelham

Designed by Jon Gray

Designed by Jon Gray

Designed by Jonathan Pelham

Designed by Ben Summers

Designed by Paul Wolterink

Crime/ Thriller

Designed by James Annal

Designed by Claire Ward

Designed by Jamie Keenan

Designed by Alex Kirby

Illustrated by Roberian Borges, Art Directed by Nick Shah

Designed by Richard Bravery

Non-fiction/

Designed by Will Speed

Designed by Jamie Keenan

Designed by Nicky Barneby

Design by Gill Heeley, Embroidery by Chloe Giordano

Designed Justine Anweiler

Designed by Claire Skeats

Designed by Fuel

Designed by Here Design

Designed by Jon Gray

Designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith

Designed by Jamie Keenan

Designed by Emma Hardy

Classic/ Reissue

Designed by Neil Lang

Designed by Rol Overwekk

WINNER

Designed by Justine Anweiler

Designed by David Pearson

Designed by Paul Finn, Alistair Hall and David Pearson

Women`s fiction

Designed by Jane Harwood

Designed by Justine Anweiler

Designed by Peter Dyer

Designed by Heike Schüssler

Designed by Alison O'Toole

Designed by Sinem Erkas