(Another Book) After Ed-werd Rew-shay Written, illustrated and designed in one week by Zoë Sadokierski. Printed on the Espresso Book Machine in about 5 minutes, at McNally Jackson bookstore. 52 Prince Street, NYC. 68pp paperback, A5 (148 x 210mm) Mono interior, colour cover… Read MorePage screen books
This book documents my research at the MoMA Library looking at, among other things, Edward Ruscha’s artist’s books. Through writing, thumbnail sketches and photographs, I explain how I accidentally became obsessed with Ruscha’s Twenty-six Gasoline Stations, a photobook that follows Route 66 between Oklahoma and Los Angeles. In response to… Read MoreWriting
In a novel that addresses the aftermath of a highly visual catastrophe, photographs communicate in ways that words alone could not. Read MorePage screen books
A z-fold book created as an ‘exegesis’ explaining the research aims and design process behind an installation at the UTS Library. The installation was a collaboration with my colleague Kate Sweetapple. We were commissioned by our university library to ‘activate’ the central stairwell, inviting students and staff to think about… Read MorePage screen books
These two concertina photobooks are an homage to L.A. based photographer/artist/book maker Edward Ruscha. While researching artist’s books in New York’s Museum of Modern Art I accidentally became obsessed with Ruscha – or more specifically, how many other people are obsessed with Ruscha’s work. In 2013, MIT press published Various… Read MoreWriting
New York Public Library 5th Ave at 42nd St, NYC Wednesday 25 March 2015 www.nycitylib.com I enter through Bryant Park, a green (sort of, it’s a cold and barren Spring so far) oasis in the middle of the densest part of town… Read MoreExhibition
The Urban Field Naturalists’ Guide to Lesser-Known Pollinators is an exhibition using storytelling to bridge the gap between environmental science and human experience of the natural world. Curated by Zoë Sadokierski and Andrew Burrell (Spec Studio, UTS School of Design), the exhibition features visualisations, assemblages of design objects and digital augmentation… Read MoreWriting
A paper presented at the Research Through Design conference in Delft, The Netherlands, 19-22 March 2019. The full paper is available to download via this FigShare link. My presentation slides include diagrams that are not in the paper, Dropbox link here (PDF,… Read MoreExhibition
Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam trilogy is set in a near-future post-apocalyptic age, in which anthropogenic climate change and bio-engineering have catastrophically altered the earth’s ecosystem and inhabitants. As Atwood tells it, humans are directly responsible for mass extinction of plant and animal species, and have unleashed genetically modified creatures… Read MoreExhibition
End Game, Part One: Possible Cost of Complacency is the result of conversations Todd McMillan and I had while tinkering in a research studio at UTS. Todd was pairing excerpts from science fiction with photographs taken on a recent trip to Antarctica, while I created collages based… Read MorePage screen books
Analogue Bodies,Vol. 1: Feet and Teeth is a collection of essays about feet and teeth by Tom Lee, materialised as an illustrated book by Zoë Sadokierski, using archival images from the public domain. The original edition is a set of five hand-bound books which were exhibited at the Emerging… Read MoreExhibition
Books On Demand is an exhibition of illustrated books produced using print-on-demand services. Also exhibited are some of the prototypes and experiments created through my design process. Print-on-demand services allow anyone with a computer and credit card to quickly and cheaply self-publish a book. The process is simple: the publisher… Read MorePage screen books
I made this little book as part of an ongoing collaboration with Tom Lee. Tom writes essays about body parts which I am turn into illustrated books – the first essays on Feet and Teeth were published as Analogue Bodies Vol. 1. As a challenge to myself, I decided to illustrate Tom’s… Read MorePage screen books
A book exploring a single passage from Murray Bail’s novel Eucalyptus, in which he compares a paragraph to a paddock. I responded to this passage using photographs, collage, and solar plate etching.The book presents a kind of text analysis – I’m exploring the ideas in Bail’s text by making images that… Read MorePage screen books
A travel narrative about my first trip to Tokyo in 2008 with my friend Kat, illustrated with sketches and collages from my travel diary: With Kat’s sense of direction and my ability to read colours, we managed to negotiate Tokyo’s subway system without incident for four days. Our social… Read MorePage screen books
A travel narrative about Shibu Onsen, a small town in the Nagano region of Japan famous for its thermal baths (onsen). Above Shibu Onsen is a forest where Japanese macaques bath in an outdoor onsen – they are the world’s only bathing monkeys. This book explains the onsen culture for… Read MorePage screen books
The Internet of Good Intentions is a short script written by Chris Caines. As part of a series of collaborations between Chris and I (see also the Durational Book project), I illustrated the script, giving the two characters a visual form, by collaging copyright free photographs and botanical images from The… Read MorePage screen books
One of the books I made for the Duration Book project (a one-week residency at the State Library of NSW, as part of ISEA 2013) in which I materialise a piece of writing by Chris Caines (a quasi-fictional conversation about memory loss) as a flag-fold book. This format allowed me… Read MoreExhibition
Clunky, cumbersome typewriters were once commonly referred to as the work-horses of writers and secretaries. So why do some writers still use them today? Contrasted to the sleek, minimalist computers and hand-held devices most people use for typing, the very ‘horsiness’ of the humble typewriter is what makes them so… Read MoreExhibition
When I tell people I wrote my doctoral thesis by hand – 70,000-words, ignoring the vast chunks of discarded text I try not to think about – they invariably laugh. Ridiculous as it may sound, it was the fastest way for me to get the thing done. Read MorePage screen books
For a 2011 exhibition Type Horses: Writers and their typewriters (Blank_Space gallery, Sydney) I produced a series of offset lithographic prints at the Big Fag Press. There was a strip of unused space on the printing plate, so I ran a series of the typewriter drawings from a larger print along the edge,… Read MorePage screen books
This book is one of a series of creative works that address the complex relationships writers have with their writing tools. This book is a visual response to Tom Robbins’ novel Still Life with Woodpecker. Within the novel, the narrator interrupts his story with asides about his writing process. He begins:… Read MoreExhibition
In this exhibition, I took a single short story (Sundays, by Katherine Danks) and ‘expanded’ it using three different graphic techniques: photography, illustration, experimental typography. The three different versions of Sundays were presented as individual books. Viewers were invited to read each book, then reflect on how the typographic,… Read MorePage screen books
For my undergraduate honours project I wrote and designed a book about the future of books in the digital age. It’s written as a conversation between a print book and digital book in a bar. Print book is drowning his sorrows because everyone thinks he’s dying. Digital book is drinking… Read More
