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Creating Issue Ten

Creating Issue Ten

By Ligature Journal
December 17, 2021

The cover was printed over four consecutive weeks, with a full day of printing per colour, per side and a week in between for drying. Coming back each week for the next round of printing was increasingly exciting as the process headed towards completion.

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How to calculate your Freelance Charge Rate

How to calculate your Freelance Charge Rate

By Felix Oppen
July 04, 2021

Photo by Christin Hume on Unsplash As a design teacher and mentor a question I have often been asked is,...

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Fabricating objects in a changed world with Domus Vim

Fabricating objects in a changed world with Domus Vim

By Ligature Journal
June 22, 2021

Object maker and architect Ian Tran bedazzled us with his iridescent lamps and melting mirrors. Ian found his path to architecture at a young age and quickly fell into the industry after interning at Domus Vim, a laser cutting and architectural model making studio.

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Meet the team of Issue Ten!

Meet the team of Issue Ten!

By Ligature Journal
June 09, 2021

As you might have guessed from our Instagram posts our new team has been chipping away at issue 10 for a while now. We are 5-6 weeks into the production of the next issue and with it comes the same challenges each team has faced so far...but with the additional twists and turns. No spoilers will be given away just yet! Let's just say that we are once again challenging the notion of what IS a magazine!

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Chatting with 2021’s ABDA Awards Shortlister, Daphne Kok

Chatting with 2021’s ABDA Awards Shortlister, Daphne Kok

By Ligature Journal
June 04, 2021

Daphne is a designer from Singapore, having first encountered design at a young age by choosing fonts for WordArt to becoming a fully-fledged creative, Daphne is now sinking her teeth into book design.⁠
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Using the story and writing of 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz' and 'The Underground Railroad', Daphne chose to manipulate type to represent the stripped away voices of the protagonists and selected a colour palette that draws from the characters of the books.⁠

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Chatting with 2021’s ABDA Awards Shortlister, Angela Huang

Chatting with 2021’s ABDA Awards Shortlister, Angela Huang

By Ligature Journal
May 28, 2021

We have once again put our support behind the Australian Book Design Awards this year sponsoring the Best Student Design Awards—Series. With the finalists to be announced in late June we wanted to have a chat with each of the talented designer’s that were chosen as finalists in this category including Frances Peck, Kespa Katsuk, Celia Mance, Angela Huang and Daphne Kok.

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Chatting with 2021’s ABDA Awards Shortlister, Celia Mance

Chatting with 2021’s ABDA Awards Shortlister, Celia Mance

By Ligature Journal
May 21, 2021

We have once again put our support behind the Australian Book Design Awards this year sponsoring the Best Student Design...

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Chatting with 2021’s ABDA Awards Shortlister, Kespa Katsuk

Chatting with 2021’s ABDA Awards Shortlister, Kespa Katsuk

By Ligature Journal
May 14, 2021

We have once again put our support behind the Australian Book Design Awards this year sponsoring the Best Student Design...

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Chatting with 2021’s ABDA Awards Shortlister, Frances Peck

Chatting with 2021’s ABDA Awards Shortlister, Frances Peck

By Ligature Journal
May 07, 2021

With the Finalists/Winners to be announced in June we thought it would be a good time to bring out the profiles again starting with Frances Peck. ⁠
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Frances designed a book cover series for the adaptation of Michael Rock’s ‘Designer as Author’, which explores how design authorship has changed over time. ⁠

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The Science of Scent, Samantha Copland explores how perfume enriches.

The Science of Scent, Samantha Copland explores how perfume enriches.

By Anne Vu
April 07, 2021

Samantha Copland of Perfume Playground started it as a sensory experience for your nose, offering workshops to create your personal, natural signature scents while having the pleasure of thoroughly experiencing each note as you add it into your perfumed concoctions.

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The magic that happens when you combine design disciplines with Something More Design

The magic that happens when you combine design disciplines with Something More Design

By Anne Vu
March 16, 2021

As designer’s in our respective fields we tend to focus on our disciplines and become really good at what we...

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A new local print shop with heart (and no MOQ's!)—Halo Print Co.

A new local print shop with heart (and no MOQ's!)—Halo Print Co.

By Anne Vu
March 09, 2021

Halo Print Co is the brainchild of husband and wife team, Meagan and Angel Monsanto. It’s a new print shop...

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