ABDA Blog
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Trading typographic transparency
This article is an edited excerpt from an ongoing research project on the role of contemporary book designers and their approaches to typesetting by ABDA member Nicole Arnett Phillips. Nicole is a designer with 18 years experience in visual… Read more
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The Australian Book Designer’s Survey 2018 (And why you should take part)
A post by ABDA member Mary Callahan (who instigated the survey idea originally).
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Re:collection and Sun Books
A guest post by Dominic Hofstede A look at the history and art of Sun Books, the iconic Australian paperback publisher launched in 1965. In 2016 Warren Taylor and I undertook a Creative Fellowship with the State Library of Victoria…
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The Making of Begin, End, Begin
A blog post by Danielle Binks. A new anthology of #LoveOzYA short stories is being released in May by HarperCollins. Editor Danielle Binks runs us through how the concept and design for the cover came together. To understand the…
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Chinese Typography and a PhD
When Tony Palmer first became interested in Chinese typography, he presumed there would be Chinese publication equivalents to Erik Spiekermann’s Stop Stealing Sheep and Learn How to Use Type Properly, or The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst. But…