Alison Forbes

  • Designer (Graphic Designer)
Forbes is a book designer active since the 1950s when she won the Australian Book Publisher Association award for "I can Jump Puddles" by Alan Alan Marshall (1955).
Tags: book designer, graphic designer
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Citation from Design Institute of Australia 2022 Hall of Fame Award

“Alison Forbes
Book Design

Alison Forbes is the first full-time independent book designer in Australia. As a pioneer in this field, she designed hundreds of titles over more than five decades, many of which occupy a most significant position within the development of Australian culture. Her books include Alan Marshall’s novel, I Can Jump Puddles for which she won the 1955 Australian Book Publishers Association (ABPA) Books of the Year, Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967), The Land that Waited (1967), John Cotton’s Birds (1974), The Art of the First Fleet (1988) and Robin Boyd, A Life (1995). Alison is an AGDA and ABDA Hall of Fame recipient in acknowledgment of her body of work and many industry awards.”

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2022
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2022

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