Desmond Ward Digby (4 January 1933 – 10 April 2015) was a New Zealand-born Australian stage designer, painter and illustrator of children's books.
Born in Auckland in 1933,[1] Digby was educated at Mount Albert Grammar School from 1946 to 1950.
He then studied at the Elam School of Fine Arts[2] and joined the New Zealand Players as a stage designer after graduation.
[2] Between 1967 and 1989 he provided the illustrations for the series of children's books Bottersnikes and Gumbles written by Sam Wakefield.
[2] He also designed covers for novels by Nobel laureate Patrick White, with whom he was close friends.