In 2020, I wrote these book making briefs as ‘structured play’ for my honours students to help them think through making, and also shared them through the Australian Book Designers Association instagram site as a design version of ‘guided meditations’ during the loneliest (for many) phase of… 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 MoreExhibition
The Book of Days is a publishing experiment. During the 2015 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) I edited and designed a festival anthology live, on site at the Walsh Bay precinct. The anthology includes writing and illustrations from festival presenters, as well as contributions from the festival audience. The book was… Read MoreExhibition
For about three years I made almost daily ‘visits’ to a troupe of wild monkeys in the Nagano region of Japan, via a live webcam that updates every minute. When I needed a moment of calm at the computer, I would tune into our primate cousins soaking in an… Read MorePage
Zoë Sadokierski is a designer, writer, creative producer and associate professor in Visual Communication at the UTS School of Design. Her practice-based research explores ways that visual communication – particularly illustrated nonfiction, data storytelling and anarchival collage – can be used to engage audiences with complex scientific… Read MoreWriting
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
‘Persistent Table of Elements’ is a series of poetic visualisations which compare the quantities of radioactive elements plutonium and uranium released in the infamous atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945 with the lesser-known nuclear tests at Maralinga, South Australia between 1955 and 1963. Between 1957–1963, the British government… Read MoreExhibition
Martha, the last Passenger Pigeon, died in Cincinnati Zoo in 1914. In the decades before her death, Passenger Pigeons numbered in the billions; flocks of migrating pigeons darkened the sun for days at a time. Within two human generations, hunting and habitat destruction drove this species to extinction. These 60… Read MoreExhibition
Gallery blurb: ‘End Game’ is an ongoing collaboration between Todd McMillan and Zoë Sadokierski through which the artists attempt to understand widespread apathy toward environmental issues. The prints in ‘End Game Part 1: Possible Cost of Complacency’ (June 2017) explored nonchalance towards human-induced climate change. No less ambitious or bleak, ‘End Game Part 2: Sleep Well’ focuses… Read MoreDesign
The brief was to create a series design that could be applied to 4-5 books a year, with a preference for minimalist designs, strong lines and bold colours, and this description of Cordite as a brand: Cordite has become known as something modern, contemporary, progressive, a little daffy but also… Read MoreWriting
(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 MoreDesign
This academic monograph reports a decade of lace-maker Cecilia Heffer’s practice-led research. There is a mix of scholarly writing, personal reflections on Cecilia’s inspiration and creative process, photographs documenting exhibitions and also research and process work. This is an experimental publication model conceived by Zoë Sadokierski for the MediaObject book… 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… Read MoreWriting
The article aims to illustrate ways authors have experimented with typographic devices to literary affect, and to encourage more experimentation with word-image interplay as a storytelling device. Read More
