Chosen from shortlists announced in April, the winners in each category are: Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover All Our Shimmering Skies (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate) designed by Darren Holt Best Designed Literary Fiction Cover

• Body of Water (Beverley Farmer, Giramondo) designed by Jenny Grigg

Best Designed Autobiography/Biography/Memoir Nonfiction Cover

• Plastic Free (Rebecca Prince-Ruiz & Joanna Atherfold Finn, NewSouth) designed by Josh Durham, Design by Committee

Best Designed Nonfiction Book

• Building a Culture (Leon van Schaik, Uro Publications) designed by Stuart Geddes

Best Designed Series

• Take Away series (Somekind Press) designed by Vaughan Mossop and George Saad

Best Designed Independent Book

• Signature (Paul Carter, Lyon Housemuseum) designed by Sean Hogan

Best Designed Fully Illustrated Book Under $50

• Planet City (Liam Young, Uro Publications) designed by Stuart Geddes and Žiga Testen

Best Designed Fully Illustrated Book Over $50

• NGV Triennial 2020 (National Gallery of Victoria) designed by Dirk Hiscock

Best Designed Cookbook (joint winners)

• Bell Primary Family Cookbook (Bell Primary School) designed by Stuart Geddes & Žiga Testen
• Comida Mexicana (Rosa Cienfuegos, Smith Street Books) designed by Evi O, Evi O Studio

Best Designed Student Cover

• If We Were Villains (ML Rio), designed by Finn Redmond

Best Designed Student Series

• Conversation with Artists, Designing as Visual Organisation and Material as Metaphor designed by Kespa Katsuk

Best Designed Children’s Illustrated Book

• This Small Blue Dot (Zeno Sworder, Thames & Hudson) designed by Zeno Sworder

Best Designed Children’s Nonfiction Illustrated Book

• Busy Beaks (Sarah Allen, Affirm Press) designed by Kirby Armstrong

Best Designed Children’s Fiction Book

• We Are Wolves (Katrina Nannestad, ABC Books) designed by Hazel Lam

Best Designed Young Adult Cover

• Loner (Georgina Young, Text) designed by Imogen Stubbs

Best Designed Children’s/Young Adult Series

• Sophie Beer series (Sophie Beer, Little Hare) designed by Pooja Desai

Emerging Designer of the Year

• Mika Tabata.

The winners were announced in an online event on Thursday, June 24.