Australian jeweller George Plionis’ first exhibition upon moving to NYC, titled ‘Mariposa’, was presented at Fitzgerald Jewelry, Brooklyn. The exhibition catalogue includes collaborations with fashion designer Timo Rissanen, ceramicist Andrew Robinson, photographer Mariano Garcia, stylist Ellen Schiavone Pande-Rolfsen and designer Zoë Sadokierski. I produced this series of collages in response… Read MoreWriting
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 MoreWriting
In 2020, I joined the Urban Field Naturalist Project, along side Field Philosopher Thom van Dooren, ecologists Dieter Hochuli and John Martin, and fellow designer Andrew Burrell. The project provides resources to help people notice wildlife in urban environments, and turn these observations into shareable stories. In 2022… Read MoreDesign
Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds is a collection of essays (written by international historians) and original visualisations (created by Katie Dean and myself) which explore the relationships among natural things – ranging from pollen in a gust of wind to a carnivorous pitcher plant to a shell-like skinned armadillo… Read MoreWriting
Digital Culture Talk, National Library of Australia 9 December, 2014 Event blurb: How we read has been evolving since the advent of the internet and mobile devices now mean a good read is never more than a tap away. Rich media, e-books, new channels and other technological… 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 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 MoreWriting
Books are object to be read but also totems that tell stories about us through their physical presence in our lives. Favourite books line our living spaces, their spines display titles and authors that communicate something about us to our guests, and remind us of worlds we have inhabited through reading. 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 MorePage screen books
I designed this anthology live at the Sydney Writers’ Festival over 5-days, inviting audiences to watch the book design process in action via a screen attached to my laptop. I set the grid, style guide and commissioned some illustrations beforehand, with 17 illustrations created live by myself and others. Part… 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 MoreWriting
Publishing is the process of getting the author’s story out of her or his head and into the hands of a reader. Authors don’t write books, they write manuscripts. Publishing is the process of getting an author’s manuscript into the hands of a reader, by materialising it – giving it… Read MoreDesign
An island of fishermen fall in love with Selkies – women who live as seals in the sea but shed their skin to walk in human form on the land. The consequences are heartbreaking. Photoshop illustration, using watercolour and pastel drawn elements. I used ink drawings of seaweed for chapter… 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 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 MoreDesign
A memoir, told through anecdotes about fashion. I illustrated the french-fold dust jacket with items from the author’s wardrobe, drawn from life and photographs taken at her house. The book is ‘undressed’ – removing the dust jacket reveals the lingerie illustrations on the book itself. More than 20 original illustrations… 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 More
