publication

book

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book

My book production knowledge comes from studying design and later teaching design and typography to print industry apprentices. This experience proved invaluable in many situations, particularly when producing books for IAD Press, where my time spanned a period of highest output for the small publishing house.
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Aboriginal publishing house

Learning first-hand about Aboriginal culture was a primary motivation to live in central Australia. But my journey really took off when I started designing and producing books for IAD Press.

The small publishing house started out as the publication department of the Institute for Aboriginal Development, producing inhouse learning materials. It evolved to become a leading publisher of Aboriginal language and culture books. A role in design and production afforded me the opportunity to learn about Aboriginal language, art and culture, through working with people who were living their culture, along with some of the leading linguists, academics, and authors in the field. As well as managing the publisher's production schedule, I directed contributing designers, photographers and illustrators, while also designing their major publications, selected covers and their marketing collateral.

Among the book covers and publications I designed were the biographies of leaders and other survivors of the changes brought about by colonisation. These included Alec Kruger’s biography of survival from the stolen generations Alone of the soaks, home-grown leader Don Ross’ biography The versatile man, and developing a revised edition for land rights and anti-nuclear activist Yami Lester’s autobiography, renamed Stockman to stirrer.
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Alone on the soaks
‍Working with the author, subject and his family and featuring my portrait photography, collage, cover and book design with additional photography supplied by the family

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The Versatile Man
Biography of an outback stockman features my typography, cover design and image treatment of family supplied photograph

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Stockman to stirrer
Revised edition featuring my proposed cover design with collage using portrait photography by Jessie Boylan and other historic images

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To systemise the publisher’s collection of biographies into a specific series, I resized some titles and designed the covers to encapsulate each life story. I applied similar strategies to bring renewed emphasis to other subject series in language learning and cultural understanding. A traditional culture series included the cover design for Veronica Dobson’s Arrernte Traditional Healing and redesigns for the reprints of her Anpernirrentye Kin and skin and MK Turner’s Arrernte Bush Foods.
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Arrernte Traditional Healing
Featuring my cover design with supplied photography

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Anpernirrentye Kin and skin
Featuring my adapted design of Christine Brudelin’s cover design with painting by Carmela Dobson

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Arrernte Bush Foods
Featuring my revised cover design with existing supplied photography

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Similar adjustments to titling and cover designs helped me to stylise, systematise and occasionally rename their growing and highly esteemed publishing list of Aboriginal language books. In most instances, the imagery I used resonated with elements of an accompanying language dictionary, while typographic styling was formalised to better place publications into their learning tiers (previously these had been presented somewhat erratically, arising as they did while the publisher became established).
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Ngaanantjarra Learner’s Guide
Language learning series featuring my cover design style with supplied photography

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Pitjantjatjara / Yunkunytjatjara Learner’s Guide
Language learning series featuring my cover design style with illustrations by Christine Brudelin

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Western Arrarnta Picture Dictionary
Language learning series featuring my application of established format with illustration by Robyn Kantawarra

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Kwatja, kwatja, kwatja!
Western Arrarnta language learning book produced for local school's curriculum featuring my cover and book design

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‍Artbooks

The IAD Press project requiring my greatest attention while at IAD Press, was the design and production of Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists, a coffee table book of artists’ biographies. Literally speaking, and as a literary work, it remains IAD Press’ largest single publication and features some 600 images across 400 pages in a casebound book. It is an epic publication chronicling life stories of more than 200 painters of the seminal Western Desert art movement.
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Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists
Front cover featuring my design treatment and photograph by John Corker

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Listen deeply, let these stories in
Front cover featuring my image treatment, cover and book design with artworks by Kathleen Wallace and photography by Judy Lovell

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Smaller in its physical dimensions but no less so in its cultural matter, Listen deeply, let these stories in was the late Kathleen Wallace’s telling of her contemporary life and art practise, in relation to her ancient and ancestral heritage. Working on this book I engaged directly with Kathleen, her culture and artwork to design an appropriately considered document.

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catalogue

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catalogue

Whether bringing together a collection of fashion, art or plumbing supplies, catalogue design can highlight a moment in time, lean into the future or promote the next big thing; it all depends on the showcased works and how they are presented.

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Papunya Tula Artists
Nyarrumparra (Sister Brother) exhibition catalogue featuring my design, photography and production management

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Tuula Roppola
Performance specification featuring my design and production management

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Paul Johnstone Gallery
Kunmanara exhibition catalogue featuring my design and production management

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Minke Bar
Multi level venue program promotion for Adelaide Fringe featuring my design with art direction by Renato Capoccia

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Miss Gladys Sym Choon
Fashion catalogue cover for the razak spring / summer 98/99 collection featuring my design and production management with photography by Claudio Raschella

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State Opera
2001 season promotion featuring my art direction, photography, type design and production management

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Paul Johnstone Gallery
Visual Rhythm exhibition catalogue featuring my design and production management with supplied imagery

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Made to Move
Sydney season brochure cover featuring my design with client supplied assets

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IAD Press catalogue
Featuring my design and production management with cover photograph by John Corker

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corporate

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corporate

Forward facing or looking back? Planning or reporting? Landscape or portrait? Promotional or pragmatic? Print or digital? Copy or create?

My corporate publication designs strive to make complex ideas accessible, enhance strategic objectives, and accommodate all potential readerships. I also produce corporate documents to be simultaneously well presented digitally and in print-ready formatting.

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MacDonnell Regional Council
2017|18 Annual Report cover featuring my photography, publication design and production management

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Indian Ocean Territories
Strategic Regional Plan 2030 cover featuring my publication design with photograph supplied by client

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Centre for Appropriate Technology
2017/18 Annual Report cover featuring my publication design and production management with client supplied photography

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Northern Territory Airports
Darwin International Airport Final Master Plan 2004–2024 featuring my publication design and production management with client supplied maps

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Barkly Regional Deal
Economic Growth Strategy 2030 cover design applying Barkly Regional Deal branding featuring Landscape of Epenarra by Susie Peterson with my infographics, publication design and production management

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I have always found that astute leadership acknowledges how the greatest net benefit flows from investing in meaningful communications, and via channels that reach beyond the corporate veil to include all stakeholders. Working at MacDonnell Regional Council from its establishing years I developed their planning and reporting documents to inform government stakeholders while effectively engaging across its workforce during a significant period of change for remote communities in central Australia.

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The following covers represent documents exclusively designed to be printed for institutional readerships. Ironically, having evolved from traditional bookmaking principles, they are all portrait format.
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SA Government
Assessment and reporting 8-10 featuring my cover design

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United Water
Research and Development 1996–2000 report featuring my design and production management with cover photography by Mark Kimber, who generously provided his layered digital imagery for application on front and back cover

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Angus Downs Tourism Precinct
Aboriginal owned cattle station’s feasibility study featuring my design elements for cover

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Barkly Regional Council
The council's Regional Plan and Budget 2015/16 featuring text pages developed within their supplied Word document

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journal

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journal

Some documents require a format that can be revisited weekly, monthly or quarterly, say newsletters or magazines. Others need to be amenable to annual revision, such as for planners, diaries and calendars. Then there are the relative intervals of corporate planning and reporting publications. Whatever the frequency, timing itself tends to bring out the timelord in this designer.

I have long appreciated pictorial calendars. So I relished the opportunity to refresh the format of the IAD Press imprinted Jukurrpa calendars and related Jukurrpa diaries. After reviewing their publication process, I introduced improvements to the design and production flow. And, as more innovative design and editorial changes to these annual favourites appeared, sales increased.
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