Stuart Geddes is a graphic designer working mostly with books, he is also a lecturer and researcher at RMIT University. Together with Žiga Testen he is part of Graphic Design Work Pty Ltd, a design studio focused on book design and publishing for arts and culture. Stuart is also one of the Australian members of Alliance Graphique Internationale.
Awards
2025:AIA Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media for March Studio: Making Architecture, Material & Process
2024:AGDA Distinction for Dale Frank, Artist: Artworks 2006–2023
2024:DINZ Gold Award for Dale Frank, Artist: Artworks 2006–2023
2024:DINZ Silver Award for Nicholas Mangan: A World Undone
2023:ABDA Award for David Thomas: Love Poem to Life
2023:AGDA Distinction for Surfing World 60th Anniversary issue
2023:AGDA Merit for An Unfinished Masterpiece
2023:AGDA Merit for David Thomas: Love Poem to Life
2023:DINZ Silver Award for Shelley Lasica WHEN I AM NOT THERE
2023:DINZ Silver Award for A see-through archive
2023:MAPDA Award for Walls to Live Beside, Rooms to Own
2023:MAPDA Award for Richard Bell Reader: documenta fifteen
2022:ABDA Award for Robert Owen: A Book of Encounters
2022:ABDA Award for Dale Harding—Through a lens of visitation
2022:AGDA Distinction for Let’s Go Outside
2022:AGDA Distinction for Surfing World magazine
2022:AGDA Distinction for Wilderness Journal: Stories of nature and people
2022:AGDA Merit for Neeson Murcutt Neille: Setting Architecture
2022:AGDA Merit for Vivienne Binns – On and through the Surface
2022:AAANZ Best University Art Museum Catalogue Award (joint winner) for Tree Story
2022:AAANZ Best University Art Museum Catalogue Award (joint winner) for Dale Harding—Through a lens of visitation
2021:ABDA Award for Bell Primary Family Cookbook
2021:ABDA Award for Building a Culture
2021:AGDA Distinction for Robin Boyd: Late Works
2021:AGDA Distinction for Robert Owen: A Book of Encounters
2021:AGDA Merit for Bell Primary Family Cookbook
2021:AGDA Merit for Dale Harding—Through a lens of visitation
2021:AGDA Merit for Kerstin Thompson Architects: Encompassing people & place
2021:AGDA Merit for Planet City
2021:AGDA Merit for Surfing World magazine
2021:DINZ Gold Award for Planet City
2021:DINZ Gold Award for Dale Harding—Through a lens of visitation
2021:DINZ Silver Award for Robin Boyd: Late Works
2021:DINZ Silver Award for Robert Owen: A Book of Encounters
2021:DINZ Silver Award for Bell Primary Family Cookbook
2021:DINZ Bronze Award for Kerstin Thompson Architects: Encompassing people & place
2020:AGDA Distinction for NIRIN NGAAY
2020:AGDA Distinction for NIRIN Catalogue
2020:AGDA Merit for Building a Culture
2020:AGDA Merit for Mariana Castillo Deball—Replaying Life’s Tape
2020:DINZ Silver Award for NIRIN NGAAY
2020:DINZ Silver Award for Samson Young—Real Music
2020:DINZ Bronze Award for NIRIN Catalogue
2020:DINZ Bronze Award for Mariana Castillo Deball—Replaying Life’s Tape
2020:DINZ Bronze Award for She Persists
2019:AAANZ Best Small Exhibition Catalogue Award for The Field Revisited
2019:DINZ Gold Award for Making Faces—A Jewellery Playbook
2019:AGDA Distinction for Making Faces—A Jewellery Playbook
2019:DINZ Gold Award for Mutual Assured Destruction
2019:DINZ Silver Award for Australia Modern
2019:ABDA Award for Architecture in its Continuums
2019:ADC The One Club Merit Award for The Field Revisited
2018:DINZ Gold Award The Field Revisited
2018:AGDA Distinction for The Field Revisited
2018:AGDA Distinction for Mutual Assured Destruction
2018:AGDA Distinction for Architecture in its Continuums
2018:AGDA Distinction for Somewhere Other
2018:Cornish Family Prize for Art and Design Publishing for To Note: Notation Across Disciplines
2018:ABDA Award for Broken
2018:AGDA Merit for Broken
2017:AGDA Distinction for To Note: Notation Across Disciplines
2017:AGDA Judges Choice Award for To Note: Notation Across Disciplines
2017:ABDA Award for Some Posters from the NGV
2017:MAPDA Award for Some Posters from the NGV
2017:D&AD Wooden Pencil for Some Posters from the NGV
2016:AGDA Distinction for Some Posters from the NGV
2016:AIA Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media for Episodic Urbanism: RMIT Urban Spaces Project 1996–2015
2016:AIGA 50 Books | 50 covers — Mongrel Rapture: The Architecture of Ashton Raggatt McDougall named one of the 50 books of the year
2016:ABDA Designers’ Choice Book of the Year for Mongrel Rapture: The Architecture of Ashton Raggatt McDougall
2016:ABDA Award for Mongrel Rapture: The Architecture of Ashton Raggatt McDougall
2015:AGDA Pinnacle for Mongrel Rapture: The Architecture of Ashton Raggatt McDougall
2015:AGDA Judges Choice Award × 2 for Mongrel Rapture: The Architecture of Ashton Raggatt McDougall wins
2015:AIA Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media for Mongrel Rapture: The Architecture of Ashton Raggatt McDougall
2012:AGDA Distinction for Head Full of Snakes
2012:AGDA Distinction for Captain Goodvibes: My Life as a Pork Chop 1973–1981
2012:AGDA Distinction for To the Four Corners of the World: The Lost Journals of the Original Surf Explorer
2012:AGDA Distinction Utopian Slumps: The Collingwood Years
2012:DINZ Gold Award for Head Full of Snakes
2012:AIA Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media for Forty-Six Square Metres Of Land Doesn’t Normally Become A House
2007:AIA Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media for Monument: Classic Houses
2006:Premier’s Design Award for Communications Design for Is Not Magazine
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ISBN 978-0-6455309-7-1
To fly, leave Earth, Return. Task Eternal.
Paperback, 592pp
215 × 290mm
Published by Powerhouse Publishing
