""Symbols of Australia"…offers a collection culled from the past century and beyond which observes our nationalism in everything from visual pun to blatant racism." The publication won the Best Designed Book award presented by the Australian Book Publishers Association in 1981. The exclusively and distinctively Australian content attracted attention especially around the time of the nation's bicentenary and was reported as having been a "major influence in the revitalising of contemporary Australian visual design". Speaking at a design conference in 1999, Cozzolino recalled: "When All Australian Graffiti disbanded I decided that I still hadn't quite fitted into Australian society. So my journey continued with "Symbols of Australia" ... most people seeing it as a nostalgic trip down memory lane. I have never seen it like that, and my unconscious motivation was always quite selfish: to find out about the land of Oz so that I could be more Aussie than the Aussies."