WH Chong with his portrait of novelist Michelle de Kretser, which was acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in early 2015. Image George Dunford.
If you have stepped into a bookshop or library in the last decade, you have probably seen WH Chong’s work.
Chong is an artist, book designer, and the long-time design director at Text Publishing, where he also designed the logo. He’s won a stack of awards for his cover designs, which include Sarah Krasnostein’s The Trauma Cleaner and Graeme Simsion’s The Rosie Project.