Mark Campbell

Mark is the Creative Director at HarperCollins ANZ where he runs the award-winning HarperCollins Design Studio and publishes his own list, Harper by Design. He is a past President of the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) and has worked in design and project management across theatre, film, animation and publishing, for companies like Bazmark Inq., Animal Logic, Hardie Grant Books and Bangarra Dance Theatre on projects like Alien Covenant, Australia, Legend of the Guardians, Firestarter and the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. He has been a guest presenter for AGDA, UTS, RMIT, Melbourne Writer’s Festival and AdobeMAX 2020, a committee member of industry initiatives like Open Book, Australia Reads and the Australian Book Industry Awards, and a member of the judging panel for the World Illustration Awards 2021. As a person of colour and a member of the LGBTQI+ community, Mark is passionate and engaged about addressing diversity and inclusion within the publishing industry by empowering, amplifying and uplifting diverse voices and employees, and steering organisations towards real outcomes and positive systemic change.